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On 11/22/2015 07:12 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
The LA Times ran a feature some years back about the court that handles name changes.
Mostly, it's women returning to their maiden names following a divorce, but the next most
common reason is a name that just doesn't sound right in English-speaking countries, such
as the Vietnamese immigrant named Dung Hiep.
We have a branch in VN and one of the programmers is named Hung. I
suppose it could be worse. Even the proper pronunciation of phở requires
care.


There's a woman doctor in California named Kim Dong Suc.