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SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
My wife has a surname that English speakers don’t understand how to pronounce. If she’s checking in at a hotel, or talking to a company over the phone, she pronounces it wrong on purpose so they’ll read/write it correctly.
It’s not very often she says her surname as it should be, lol
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Nguyen?
Americans, ironically, can’t say it.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Ha!
No, it’s in Hungarian. Nguyen was my ex’s surname though, and she literally gave me applause the first time I said it right (after some coaching).
I’m British, but I can get most pronunciations right with a little practice :-)