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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a name that I do NOT pronounce correctly, according to your definition, but that I pronounce the way that I and my family do. I think I would feel bent out of shape if you told me I don't know how I should say my own name.[/quote]

OP here: Pronounce it any way you want. I don’t care. Pronunciation of names mutates over time and by place. If you only heard for example Chojnacki pronounced the “wrong” way, and you call the next person meet with that name by that pronunciation may (not) be very offended. I also know some older relatives get upset or disappointed that their children, siblings, daughters-in-law, etc. don’t continue to use the family’s pronunciation. One of my ancestors changed the spelling of our surname back to the proper foreign spelling because she deemed the anglicized version offensive. Her native language was illegal to use in her native land by the a country that over ran it. [/quote]

BTW I have cousins who spell our shared surname differently, and I use that spelling for them. I have other relatives who pronounce our common surname differently and I call them by that pronunciation. I have relatives who alternate the spelling and the pronunciation depending on context — when they are around people who don’t have our ethnic background, they use the anglicized version. I don’t really care that they spell or pronounce it differently. I just find it fascinating how these things morph and how some people get upset (or don’t) about names.[/quote]

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