This is where I go for all my trivia questions, so here goes. Long time client gets married and her new last name is Szychulda.

Origin? Pronounced? I know, just call her by her first name, but help me here

QUOTE (Howard @ Jan 25 2005, 03:16 PM)

Szychulda.

shheeshooldoh

oo as in school
o as in mom

eastern europe, probably polish or Czech Republic.
i had a girl friend once with a similar last name

Sztochay

Andy

How is Holly anyway?

QUOTE (Howard @ Jan 25 2005, 04:16 PM)

Szychulda.

I am going to go with: ciz chewl da

Just ask her to pronounce it slowly and work with you. I have found that people with hard to pronounce names would rather not have you butcher it and appreciate the effort in saying it right.

Try: Piyaphichetkul

Yep when in dought, ask.

Or call her "Mrs. Green"

A guy at work has a name like that and everyone just calls him Captain Green

Nope not Czech.

I had a friend who's last name was Cieciorka.

Pronounced cha-chair-ka..

Thanks for the hints, all. From her email:

phonetic would be: shulda and it's polish. And I thought my German last name was a pain!

I get lots of comments about my last name. It's not that hard. Most people try to add a vowel. I was at swimming a race and the anouncer called out the names of the person in each lane. Aperantly when he got to my name he asked if I wanted to buy a vowel. My ears were full of water so I couldn't laugh but everyone else got a kick out of it. If you pronounce it just as it's spelled you got it.

Vowels are over rated.