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Nice point about Portia and Porsche! It clarifies something I've noted a couple of times here in South Africa: girls named Cezanne. I've long suspected that it was Suzanne with a touch of artistic flair ... especially since there is a strong tradition of French given names here (we had Huguenot refugees who got our wine industry going) but not much history of French as a taught language. So people try to clarify pronunciation by using Charl and Jaque instead of Charles and Jaques; conversely, Madeleine is typically pronounced MAH duh LAYN, and I knew a Georges who used the English pronunciation exclusively.

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Does anything like this occur in the States?

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