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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Phuc[/quote]

Now, this one is really unfortunate. [/quote]

I think that is a fairly common Vietnamese name, isn't it? Hopefully pronounced with a hard "u," like "Phook" ... but I don't know. I have seen it before but never heard it spoken.[/quote]

Yes,Vietnamese and pronounced fook. Honestly though, it's one I just wouldn't use in the US. Like Hung, which is my BIL's Vietnamese name. It's pronounced skrt of like home and is a nice sounding name, but I totally understand why he uses his American name exclusively.

Bich is a Vietnamese name as well, but I don't know how it's pronounced. Another one I would avoid in an English speaking country.

Usually, people I meet with names like this are immigrants, and of course their parents weren't thinking about how the name might appear in the US. Years ago, though, I knew an American woman/Vietnamese man living in the US who named their son Phuc. That I thought was pretty dumb.[/quote]

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