Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy for August 10, 2022

wellll it can be disturbing when going and coming forth from English to Arabic and Arabic to English – Like … it can be Sawsan but still some would call it Susan, or it would be Susan but some might say it as Soozan or Suzaan….. hmmm what’s the last name? I think that would be easier … ( ⚆ _ ⚆ )

I had been pronouncing Huda’s name incorrectly.

Not-so-amusin’ Susan

I was very close.

But her last name is Yastrzemski.

Cast roll call!

I thought her name was pronounced “who-da”!

It’s all relative. I have a very simple American name, but go to another part of the world and it becomes a tongue twister.

who’da thought that was how you pronounced it…?

i feel her pain – i have a surname that nobody – not one person – outside my family has ever pronounced correctly…

Mine’s straightforward and easy to say, but people who read it and haven’t seen or heard it before try to twist it into something exotic. I have at least one friend in a similar situation. Just say it the way it looks!

Suss-Sahn?