Re: Baby's surname

[Alberto Monteiro]

John Horn wrote: 
>  
> You would be amazed how many people can mishear a simple 
> name like "Horn". I get "Horan", "Doran", "Warren", 
> "Smith"...  (OK, maybe not that last one...) 
>  
I can understand why this happens with English, that is 
an ideographic language. But even with names in 
Portuguese people can get confused. My wife's mother's 
surname, _Malheiros_, is always misunderstood. 
 
Alberto Monteiro 
 
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