Also because some of the Slavic names worked really well with a French pronunciation.

Here few people attempt my last name. In France, no one blinks. They don't pronounce it in a Polish way, or the way we do here, but they are remarkably consistent among themselves.

The French Canadian way of mispronouncing my first name is one of the few I don't mind. And it's really not a pretty accent. I haven't heard a strong Parisian accent go at it.

The French Canadian way of mispronouncing my first name is one of the few I don't mind. And it's really not a pretty accent. I haven't heard a strong Parisian accent go at it.

How do they pronounce it? I ask because I always think of your name in French because I thought that was the basic pronunciation.

It just made me laugh because there were some names that really didn't work, like Gomez, but some, like Hamrlik and Kostitsyn, that were remarkably harmonious.

My name is pronounced exactly like the -ita in Rita or senorita, but the Quebecois pronunciation was much longer, more like ee-tuhh, sort of fading off. I pronounce it very crisply and with a definite 'a'.

Did you post that before?

Jen, no, I only just found that yesterday.

Okay, that's what I thought. It's basically italien, without the -lien.

LeN linked to it upthread.

Megan, I think of the stress in italien as being less on the "ee", but I may be pronouncing the French wrong. Or Canadian.

LeN linked to it upthread.

Oh, good. Not crazy. Or, at least, not making random shit up. In this thread. Today.