I worked somewhere that had two physicians named Wong. At some point, someone sent him a piece of information that belonged to the other person.
My phone rang one day, and he identified himself, explained the issue, and said:
“I think you got the wong Wong.” Then he laughed, and I did too.
Good God. I would give a lot for a little sanity these days.
In my profession, I work hard at names, and I am someone people come to when they want to figure out pronunciation...I get pretty close most of the time, but not all.
If my pronunciation is wrong, I have no problem with being corrected, and I have no problem with outright asking someone how their name is pronounced.
Hahaha...I remember decades ago I had a patient, and when I went out to the waiting room for him, I was looking at his name, and the only pronunciation I could come up with was “Penis” and I thought “Crap, that can’t be right”, and I felt embarrassed to ask him how he pronounced it, so I took a stab at it and when I greeted him with a somewhat tortured pronunciation of his name...he stood up and said “It’s pronounced “penis”.
I nearly fell on the floor!
Man, you go into the military with that name, you have all kinds of grief coming your way!
So many football players with beat-uppable names. They must have gotten very tough very early.