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Originally Posted by Sparrow
In the UK lough is pronounced similarly to loch.
People's surnames can be a nightmare.
I recently read 'Miss Marjoribanks' by Margaret Oliphant and pronounced the name as written.
There was a radio adaptation on over the weekend and they pronounced Marchbanks. 
And Dorothy L. Sayers liked her surname pronounced 'sez' apparently.
If you want your name pronounced a certain way, for goodness sake spell it a certain way!!  |
heheh !
i won't tell you how my name is spelled / pronounced. it's actually very very easy, but... you have to know the phonetic rules of hungarian. (actually, any slavic language will make it easy for you). anglophones invariably get it wrong. but i would never have guessed how to pronounce "marjoribanks" and i didn't know about miss sez either.
english place names are as bad as surnames (and the same word can frequently be both). i still remember the day i realised bertie wooster's last name was probably a joke on one of those upper-class names like "worcester" (which apparently is pronounced the way wooster is spelled, if i've understood correctly...
). it was the forehead slap heard round the world.
