On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:32:58 +0100, eag### [at] telekabelnl (Phoenix)
wrote:

>Sietse de Ruiter, The Netherlands (Holland if you must).
>
>But since most people get serious tongue injuries trying to pronounce my 
>real name, I go by the nick of Phoenix.
>
>Phoenix

Peter Popov, Sofia, Bulgaria

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. 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

And hey, no flames about pee-oh-vees and pohvs and so.

Regards,
Peter

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