> When I hear other people get common but foreign names […] wrong, I grimace too. To be honest, this seems as one of the worst ways to handle such situations.

> When I hear other people get common but foreign names […] wrong, I grimace too. To be honest, this seems as one of the worst ways to handle such situations. Feeling distraught over an imprecise pronunciation feels like something to get rid of rather than accepting as a norm. And I am saying this as someone with a slight speech impediment using one of the more consonant cluster-rich languages on the continent. I would have to be delusional to expect someone from an English-speaking country to pronounce names such as Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz on first or even second try. Also, how do you decide which names are common? Not trying to be rude, but this can easily depend on from where someone is coming from and their age/generation. Names popular in the generation of my grandparents sometimes are completely absent from my own and rarely written down. This all also comes with the prerequisite that a person in question still uses the original pronunciation and not one adapted to the dominant language in the region.