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We had a problem (many years ago!) choosing a name all the various relatives could pronounce (between the two sides of the family there were half a dozen languages and no one person spoke them all). We had to throw away phonemes that not everyone could say and ended up with a single syllable name that everybody could at least pronounce one way or another.

Another is “is this name a rude or funny word in one of these other languages?”



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