>>And now I know. I've always mentally pronounced it 'tam-mar'.
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>Yeah, that's a common one I hear. One advantage of having an unusual name is that it makes it easy to screen out the sales calls. <g>

Screen out? You mean there are some you screen in?

Speaking of rare names, it doesn't hurt much to have one, but to lose the rarity makes life so much easier. Today I answered a phone call which began with "Hi, Dragan, this is Dragan" and turned out to be a wrong number.