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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Our family name is 矢部 - I`m sort of indifferent to it. It irritates the crap out of me to have to clarify how to say it when we`re out of Japan. Everyone tries to read it as one syllable with a long A. Argh.
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I laughed out loud when I read that. So they read it to rhyme with 'babe', yeh?
I once had a deep Southerner read my full name in romaji, and man, he read all the 7 vowels wrong....and looong!