Woman of Letters

Woman of Letters

Even though, in general, a person should always try to pronounce names correctly, I personally don't care if you mispronounce my name

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Naomi K
Sep 21, 2012
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Whenever I meet new people, the question will always come up about how to pronounce my name. It looks and sounds remarkably like the Spanish Raul or the Portuguese Raoul, but it's got this 'h' in the middle. You're actually supposed to pronounce that 'h'--the final result is something like Rah-hool. And inevitably it comes out that some person has been …

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