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On Pronouncing My Last Name

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So, anyway, during the game, Jerry Remy mentions ESPN, except he pronounces it “Aspen” (which I guess is how people address those two kids named ESPN). But it made me think: Americans always have problems pronouncing my last name - “Sng” - thanks to its lack of vowels, and they usually default to something that sounds like “sing”, which isn’t right. So, next time I meet a Bostonian who needs to figure out how to say my name, I’m going to say the vowel pronounced exactly the same way as the vowel in “NESN”.