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Tom Enright wrote:

*Hillary Israeli wrote:
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* In ,
* Donna Metler wrote:
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* *I'm imagining the poor teachers trying to call the roll on future first days
* *of school-better hope some of these parents decide to homeschool! (Or
* *include phonetic pronounciation guidelines on their child's registration
* *form!). How do you pronounce Xicigu, anyway?
*
* The pronunciation thing doesn't bug me as much for some reason. Ever since
* a high school teacher of mine called a classmate "Joe-ACK-win," (the kid's
* name was Joaquin, you know, wah-KEEN), I have kind of just figured that no
* matter what name you use, someone will screw it up.
*
*There is a point where if the number of people who mispronounce a name is
*greater than the number who prounounce it "correctly" one should consider
*that perhaps the parents or owner of the name is actually in the wrong.

Sure. But Joaquin is not pronounced JoeACKwin.

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