I had an Indian student a few years ago named Akshit...pronounced Akshit. Fortunately, he went by A.K. Another school in the district had a student named Fuc Tran, pronounced Fuck. I would have called him Mr. Tran.
Is it really? The National Spelling Bee champion from Louisiana is Zaila Avant-garde, but her parents changed her name to Avant-garde. I am still salty about her because she beat my student from last year, Dhroov Bharatia. He was my first-ever finalist in the National Spelling Bee in 30 years of teaching. He won the school bee again this year, so he's on his way back for his redemption tour.
Valid points, but I doubt it ever comes that. Lets be honest. Every major school (yes LSU too) has always paid players. This just makes it out in the open now.
I had a salesman who called on me named Mafoud. I think that's how he spelled it, but he pronounced it like "My food". His first name and initial were Peter B.
Knew a contractor named Parikshit. One of the clients would always fkup his name, calling him parrot-shit. I cringed on those conf calls.
Many that have flown military airplanes all over the world have met the likes of the Magroin brothers in some military bar when they still had them. Mardon nametags in Tucson Az supplied thousands over the years. Say hi if you ever run into Pat, Phil, and Rub.
Old trick when I started airlines was to call DFW airport paging service and ask for a page for Mike, then sit back and watch, it happened…..all the time.
