>>>>I have always heard it as pop-poe or maybe pah-poe. Am I off?
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>>>Only a little. Try puh-poe with the accent on the 'poe'. When I was a kid in school, I used to sign my essays and stuff as "Edgar Alan Popow".
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>>I just can't imagine the -ow being pronounced as both consonants. It's Popov to me - heck, the name is so frequent here, it usually takes at least a whole page in the phone book of any decent sized city.
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>And you'd be abolutely right were it Popov and not Popow. ;)
I'm with Dragan. You've obviously been mis pronouncing your name from birth :-)
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