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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
I would like to buy a vowel, please. I can't tell you the trouble my Bohemian name of "Strnad" has given me over the years
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I was lucky growing up, I had a slavic last name that is easy for anglophones to pronounce, but many of my friends didn't, I feel your pain. My current last name has 2 diacritics in it (but no vocalic r), my mom and my husband told me I would have been better off keeping my maiden name.