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    Name pronunciations

    I get an email from someone who as part of the email sig states how to pronounce their name.

    Another guy has last name of Sugar, but he pronounces it as ‘Soooogaar’.

    What is the point?

    #2
    Originally posted by Wilmslow View Post
    I get an email from someone who as part of the email sig states how to pronounce their name.

    Another guy has last name of Sugar, but he pronounces it as ‘Soooogaar’.

    What is the point?
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      #3
      Originally posted by Wilmslow View Post
      I get an email from someone who as part of the email sig states how to pronounce their name.

      Another guy has last name of Sugar, but he pronounces it as ‘Soooogaar’.

      What is the point?
      It saves having to guess. For instance most round here pronounce Wilslow as w-i-m-p

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        #4
        Problem is emails/letters from women who sign name+surname. Replying with Dear christian name+surname seems wierd, you can't put Dear christian name to somebody you don't know but is it Dear Miss x, Ms x or Mrs X?

        I lay awake many nights worrying about this. How do others solve this major dilemma?

        Ps Ms seems obvious but it gets feminists in a rage and you may get a letter bomb by return.
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          #5
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Problem is emails/letters from women who sign name+surname. Replying with Dear christian name+surname seems wierd, you can't put Dear christian name to somebody you don't know but is it Dear Miss x, Ms x or Mrs X?

          I lay awake many nights worrying about this. How do others solve this major dilemma?
          Refuse to have anything to do with them and insist on speaking to a man.
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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Problem is emails/letters from women who sign name+surname. Replying with Dear christian name+surname seems wierd, you can't put Dear christian name to somebody you don't know but is it Dear Miss x, Ms x or Mrs X?

            I lay awake many nights worrying about this. How do others solve this major dilemma?

            Ps Ms seems obvious but it gets feminists in a rage and you may get a letter bomb by return.
            Honeybunch?

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            While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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              #7
              Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
              you can't put Dear christian name to somebody you don't know

              Yes you can. If they take offence it's up to them to let you know their preferred salutation if they haven't provided something less personal.

              i.e. This should be way down the list of things keeping you awake at night. At the top of my such list is a fit blonde, but she doesn't like me calling her at all.
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                #8
                There is a guy at my current clientco whose surname is Fan but we pronounce it with a "c", to rhyme with "runt".
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                  #9
                  The current mrs stek reminds me constantly it's not 'ROMan AbROMovich', it's pronounced 'raMAN AbramOVich'...

                  Unstressed 'o' is pronounced 'a' in Russian, like 'spasiba' - not 'spasibo'...

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by stek View Post
                    The current mrs stek reminds me constantly it's not 'ROMan AbROMovich', it's pronounced 'raMAN AbramOVich'...

                    Unstressed 'o' is pronounced 'a' in Russian, like 'spasiba' - not 'spasibo'...
                    You say Spasiba, I say Spasibo.
                    "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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