Over the past 21 years, I've heard it butchered in every possible way that it just doesn't bother me anymore. But that takes too long to describe, so I don't bother. The most accurate way I can describe how to pronounce my name to a person is to take any present participle, like the word 'walking,' take off the root, so all you have is '-ing,' and then take of the 'i' sound.

Sometimes I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly. The English spelling is a crude phonetic spelling of the Cantonese way of saying five (which is more like 'mmm'). It's 'Ng.' In Chinese, it's the surname version of the character for the number five.

(espcially becast my last name is _not_ phoenetic) People often mispronounce my last happens so often, as long as they make a decent attempt, I'm not bothered, so I don't correct them I often see that Asians don't try to correct wrong pronounciations of their names, which I always considered kind of insulting, and certainly not helpful, like I am sure they think they are being.

How to you pronounce pho