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My first name is so common and so pronouncible, that there has never been any problem with it. But Young (spelled and pronounced Jung until the 1880's) is something else again. An easy name for English speakers, but not to others. When my wife and I lived in Italy, the Italians could not pronounce it. Eventually she had to get used to being addressed as Signora Djungay or something like it. What's even stranger is that Orientals seem to hear it as a Chinese word, or they think it's John. Often, after being asked what my name is, I get the reply, OK John, .... And at least 5 or 6 times in the last 10 years someone has asked me or my wife if we are Chinese.
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Your Name, please?
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of troy
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Shoshannah
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Natural names
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Marianna
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jmh
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More name stories . . .
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wizzen
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Geoff
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wow
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