[Notthemomma]

"Yeah, it’s an old joke from an advertisement about job interviews gone bad. A prospective employer says from behind a desk showing his last name to be “Dumas.” Plainly, in French, his name would be “Doo-mah.” It’s usually translated into English, however, as “Doom-iss.”"

Nice, that's the best part of adult interaction here, the education provided! I was indeed "missing something," the cultural joke reference. Thank you very much!

[dangus]

You’re welcome.

I still can’t believe Bob Saget chose the pronunciation he did, being so close to an old-fashioned cuss word for a gay man. Worse than that, a New England grocery store chain, Roche Brothers, is pronounced “Roach Brothers,” instead of “Rawsh Brothers.” (I don’t expect them to expect a completely French pronunciation, ‘Rawshuh’; I do expect foreign last names to be assimilated towards English phonemes.)