Richard Holton wrote:
Of course, the definitive pronunciation for any
person's name is the
way that person pronounces it (or maybe the way that person's mother
pronounces it :-) ).
An interesting feature is that some people actually pronounce their name
both in a "native-language" way and in an "English-like" way,
depending
on who they're talking to. This is fairly common among immigrants to
the United States and their immediate descendants, at least. So which
version do we want then? =]
-Mark