Speaking as someone with a last name that people insist on messing up, I have sympathy for people with tricky surnames. But that said, PartyPoker’s Anurag Dikshit has a prize-winner of a family name, to the point that every newspaper article about the upcoming PartyPoker IPO feels embarassedly obliged to give a pronunciation guide to his otherwise scatological-seeming surname: “(pronounced DIX-sit)” is the parenthetical in an article in today’s Times.
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Freakonomics has a very amusing anecdote about a baby in LA (I think it was LA) whose first name was pronounced Shehteed. Spelling of the name was the utterly unfortunate ‘Shithead.’