>Dragan;
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>You would think that anyone could pronounce my last name, Whiteley (White lee). However, from Kindergarten through six years of college, only one teacher pronounced it correctly, and she had a Ph.D. in English! Do not ask me why this occurred but it did. On the Polish side of my family my grand aunt’s husband changed the name from Rosynski to Ross - that worked for them. My grandmothers last name was Pieotrovski - that could not be pronounced either.
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>I have not had an employer who could pronounce my name correctly for the first few months. Perhaps we should all be called by the same name to be sure of correct spelling and pronunciation! Perhaps he and she would do? I would hate to tax anyones abilities!
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>Tom

Tom,

I hate to admit, but in my mind I spelled your name incorrectly. Thanks for letting us know. I guess I mispelled lots of last and first names here incorrectly. I even now think, that Tasker may have "hidden s".

My last name is also very hard to spell in writting, but hopefully not that hard to just spell [Nosonovski] I never tried to use my official first name (Nadezhda), because here in US it never would be spelled correctly :) Even Nadya could be spelled as 'Nadia', 'Nadja', etc. I usually just don't mind :)