>Nobody who I met for the first time ever pronounce my last name correctly in Russian or English. Just different degree of mispronunciation.
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My uneducated attempt would be "bare-EZH-knee-care." Having trouble figuring out how to spell the second syllable; I'm imagining it as "edge" without the "d" and with a kind of rumbling of the "z". Am I anywhere close?

Tamar