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LadyX wrote: 80.192.14.77 wrote: ''99.47.198.55 wrote: I found someone who wrote up a list of hard-to-pronounce Polish names:

List of Names

Who knows if they'll stick to the Polish thing, but I'm really rooting for "Wawrzyniec."''

'''hehe. how funny. I am polish and I can easily pronounce that name. and if u heard someone polish say it it you would find it easy too. trust me. and why do u think polish names are hard to pronounce?? '''

The problem with that list is that none of those names end with an 'nim' which we saw on the paper when his dad was at the parent teacher meetings. I found two possibilities that could be an old polish man's name that end with 'nim'. Those are Heronim and Hieronim.

As to your question about why we think they're hard to pronounce, for one thing your have characters in your alphabet that we don't, like ł. We don't know how to pronounce that letter. And the names 'look weird', one example is having Ss and Zs next to eachother but there are others. And another issue that I know I have is that I'm not sure if a W if polish is pronounced like an English W, or a german W. I'm sure once people hear the name, it's not too hard to repeat most of them, but looking at them and trying to sound it out can be pretty intimidating.

The english 'w' and the german 'w' are pronounced differently? I've never realised that, i am pretty fluent in both languages, well more in german, and i always thought they sounded the same until i tried to pronounce two word beginning with 'w' in both languages, Sorry for going off-topic