Forum: Photography


Subject: Our names in your native tongue. Not photography, that's for sure.

TomDart opened this issue on Jan 03, 2008 · 14 posts


TomDart posted Mon, 07 January 2008 at 7:30 AM

Olivier, you showed one of my thoughts exactly..not only will we not pronounce the name correctly but may also transliterate it into a name with which we are more familiar..therefore Olivier becomes Oliver.  

I have heard my simple name Tom pronounced Tum and Toom  with a long "o".