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Graham

On 2017-09-28 7:44 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> 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...
>
> A teaching colleague had a new pupil whose mother introduced him as
> "Gooey", pronounced as in cheese sauce.
>
> She asked how to spell the child's name and Mother replied "G-U-Y, of
> course".
>
> Janet.
>
The N.American pronunciation of "buoy" is "booee".