Maybe it's my long ago past HR work...I just feel it best to say things like people's names correctly for the language, if possible. My own former last name was butchered so often I could always tell they meant me by the rude utterances sounding nothing like the name...even by people like doctors office staff who saw me weekly during pregnancy. I always said it for them...they just never bothered to try to get it right. 'Course, our own 'language'
is such a mish-mash of other languages that lots of our words have more than one pronunciation, so...no wonder we're confused!
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I know what you mean about last names. My own maiden name was a mouthful, but nothing like my poor husband's family had to go through. Seems like a lot of people (especially nurses for some reason) thought that "Van Damme" sounded too much like a curse word at the time, lol! Thanks to Jean-Claude, now its not so mispronounced!