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From: pete on 19 Jun 2010 00:01
Ben Pfaff wrote:

> About the time I entered high school, I realized that there was
> an easy fix: change the way that I pronounce it. So from then on
> I have always pronounced my name with an initial "f" ("faf").
> This confused people who knew me for a while, but it has been
> wonderful otherwise. It still causes confusion once in a while,
> because the rest of my family still says "paf", so that people
> sometimes wonder whether we are really related, but I live
> thousands of miles from the rest of my family so it's pretty
> uncommon.

My guess was that it was pronounced "paf".

I used to know somebody named
Padmanabapuram Radakrishnan.
His family called him "Pad".
His friends called him "Rad".

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From: Willem on 19 Jun 2010 03:00
Ben Pfaff wrote:
) My last name was very frustrating when I was young. It was just
) odd enough, and I was just sensitive enough to teasing, that I
) was teased about it a lot in school.
)
) Worse, though, my family pronounces Pfaff with an initial "p"
) ("paf"). That makes no sense at all, since every other word
) spelled with "pf" is pronounced with an "f" sound. So no one
) seeing it for the first time would ever pronounce it correctly,
) for very good reason.
)
) About the time I entered high school, I realized that there was
) an easy fix: change the way that I pronounce it. So from then on
) I have always pronounced my name with an initial "f" ("faf").
) This confused people who knew me for a while, but it has been
) wonderful otherwise. It still causes confusion once in a while,
) because the rest of my family still says "paf", so that people
) sometimes wonder whether we are really related, but I live
) thousands of miles from the rest of my family so it's pretty
) uncommon.

Oddly enough, I would pronounce your last name with both the 'p' and
the 'f'; that's because that name sounds German to me, and AFAIK that's
how they pronounce it there. (As well as here in the Netherlands).


SaSW, Willem
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From: Jens Thoms Toerring on 19 Jun 2010 05:20
Willem <willem(a)turtle.stack.nl> wrote:
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
> ) Worse, though, my family pronounces Pfaff with an initial "p"
> ) ("paf"). That makes no sense at all, since every other word
> ) spelled with "pf" is pronounced with an "f" sound. So no one
> ) seeing it for the first time would ever pronounce it correctly,
> ) for very good reason.
> )
> ) About the time I entered high school, I realized that there was
> ) an easy fix: change the way that I pronounce it. So from then on
> ) I have always pronounced my name with an initial "f" ("faf").
> ) This confused people who knew me for a while, but it has been
> ) wonderful otherwise. It still causes confusion once in a while,
> ) because the rest of my family still says "paf", so that people
> ) sometimes wonder whether we are really related, but I live
> ) thousands of miles from the rest of my family so it's pretty
> ) uncommon.

> Oddly enough, I would pronounce your last name with both the 'p' and
> the 'f'; that's because that name sounds German to me, and AFAIK that's
> how they pronounce it there. (As well as here in the Netherlands).

Yes, that's the way it is pronounced in German. And it's
a rather well-known name over here because of a company
with that name producing sewing machines since nearly 150
years.
Regards, Jens
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