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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH's family comes from a slavic country that uses cyrillic. Why the F wasn't the name written as it's pronounced in English? They use a different alphabet so they should have gone by the usual English phonetics when writing it out. I wonder this about other names as well that come from countries that use different alphabets- like Chinese names. DH's family pronounces their last name wrong, so I do too. I completely understand why a French last name wouldn't change the spelling when they immigrate to the US. But if your last name doesn't have a spelling in English/latin alphabet, why not choose an easy one?[/quote] +1 - or choose the phonetic one. Greek is terribly phonetic, but somebody decided to replace kappas with "c's" Why? Kappa makes a K sound! So instead of pronouncing Kyklops and being closer to the actual greek word, we pronounce it "sigh-clops". SMH. [/quote]
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