Peter Popov wrote in message <36d12f3f.38056661@news.povray.org>...

>How about this: my name is very common, I can think of at least 15
>languages that have it, and it sounds in 15 different ways.

Hey, here in Sweden they even have two versions of your name: Peter and
Petter (one with a long "e", the other with a short "e" and longer "t" - if
it is possible to have a long "t" ;-)

> Not to
>mention that my family name , when pronounced by an English speaker,
>sounds like 'Poh-pov, (the accent falling on the first, therefore the
>wrong syllable,) means, in Bulgarian, "more povish" :) as "po-" is our
>equivalent of "more" in English


Don't despair, at least you are the only one around here who actually has
POV in his name!

Johannes.

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