Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:12:46 +0100 From: Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org

And -- in the event the OP is still here, Joan Gom?, how are you properly addressed in person? I have heard people say things like "When does Gom? arrive in Paris" and I have also been using that. But you should presumably be addressed as Joan -- and presumably with the J sound pronounced as a Y?

Thanks, Sue

Well I am a bit ashamed by all this attentions to this off topic issue. I am used to many changes in my name but if you are curious this is the idea:

It is indifferent to use the name or surname. In Catalan it is much more common to use the surname even among friends because the names are repeated a lot but either is correct and usual.

"J" in Catalan is pronounced exactly the same as in English. It is perfectly correct to pronounce Joan as in English. It sounds like if you came from Valencia. In Barcelona it is pronounced Jooan the “o” sounds like “oo” in book.