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in reply to a message by Magz
I would have done the very same as your mother. I would never have guessed Liam from that.
I think that English-speaking countries have to be cognizant of that fact that j is pronounced a certain way in our language, and 'y' is the letter they are looking for. If you live somewhere and the language dictates a certain sound, you cannot expect people to just know the pronunciation - unless it is a common name.
However, it goes the other way too. Sometimes we assume an exotic pronunciation and are wrong.
For example, I made the mistake the other day of calling a woman by her name Maria Jorge, and saying Maria Hor-hay... she looked at me and said "it's george".
I think that English-speaking countries have to be cognizant of that fact that j is pronounced a certain way in our language, and 'y' is the letter they are looking for. If you live somewhere and the language dictates a certain sound, you cannot expect people to just know the pronunciation - unless it is a common name.
However, it goes the other way too. Sometimes we assume an exotic pronunciation and are wrong.
For example, I made the mistake the other day of calling a woman by her name Maria Jorge, and saying Maria Hor-hay... she looked at me and said "it's george".
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