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On 9/27/2017 4:24 PM, Bruce wrote:

> In the Netherlands, parents sometimes give children "exotic" names
> they don't know how to pronounce. They'll call their girl Priscilla
> and pronounce the "c" as a "k".
>


A woman whose nephew's name was pronounced 'Eye-Ann', once corrected me
on the pronunciation of my son's name. The boy's parents were looking
for a name beginning with 'I', and found 'Ian' in a book of baby names...