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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Pronouncing your name in another language
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 21:41:28 GMT
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Not so very long ago, moose@halcyon.com (Moosenose) said...

>Actually, I work with someone whose name is Jose, who goes by "Joe".

  I was mildly surprised some time back to find that my friend Bill's 
real name was Guiermo.  Same phenomenon.

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                              ==----=                    Steve MacGregor
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