Thursday 20 August 2020

Anglicised Oriental Names

I used to get upset when people tries to call my Cantonese name in the Anglicised way, but maybe I already have it easy.  The BBC reporter Mariko Oi has to put up with people cannot even pronounce her last name!

I always wonder what is Mariko's actually name, given the Oi pronunciation isn't very Japanese, so I searched online.  It was not Oi, it was OhYee (big well).  People mispronounces her name not because they cannot sound the actual work (unlike in Cantonese, my name), people mispronounces her name either because of laziness or pure ignorance.

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