There’s a BBC New reporter and presenter named Julia Caesar. And they pronounce it rather quickly.
My dad’s family tree includes my favorite old-timey name ever … Arramintha Clementine.
Meet Julia Caesar.
Is there anywhere where it isn’t?
Dick Masheter Ford is about an hour’s drive east. Come on, man, you can choose how to shorten your first name!
Do we have to have this conversation every single time? If you speak with a rhotic accent, porn and pawn aren’t pronounced alike. Have you ever heard someone speak with an American accent? Most Americans are rhotic. And some British people are rhotic too.
Porn - [pɔɹn]
Pawn - [pɒn] or [pɑn]
Even if you have a non-rhotic accent, it’s possible to pronounce them somewhat differently:
Porn [pɔːn]
Pawn [pɔn] [pɒn]
:::hijack::: In Florida (and maybe elsewhere as well) There’s a Matthews Currie Ford. And in Orlando there’s a Curry Ford road (no relation.)
It’s almost as nice a coincidence as in Sarasota where there is a Swift Road which is renamed halfway along its length into Tuttle Road – no relation to the Swift-Tuttle comet.
There is a fellow in British Columbia Forestries named “Peter Semenoff.”
It’s pronounced just as it’s spelled.
I did laugh when I heard of the locality of “Pakenham Upper”
My husband worked with Rick Dawe who said he had a sister named Lottie.
I used to work with Heidi Ho.
A customer from a company I used to work at long ago: Ophelia Wang
Years ago a co-worker with the surname Rayle named his daughter Ginger.
mmm
Went to school with Rusty Pipes, had a room mate, Penny Coyne. Then there was the baby in the hospital Crystal Bowl, just don’t understand why do people have to be so mean.