I am terrible at pronouncing last names

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I am terrible at pronouncing last names

holychicken
Feb 14 2008 02:16 PM

And there is a disagreement in my office on how to pronounce this one:

Assalone

Normally I would just kind of wing it and get corrected, but I am afraid to say my wing it of it to the persons face because it might be a bit embarrassing :)

So any Italians on the board who can help me out? Or anyone who knows how to pronounce it, I guess.

metirish
Feb 14 2008 02:18 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 14 2008 02:21 PM

Ass- A- Lone- Ney?

Are you taking the piss?

soupcan
Feb 14 2008 02:18 PM

Rhymes with 'Crass Baloney'

AG/DC
Feb 14 2008 02:24 PM

Man shall not live by ass alone.

Nymr83
Feb 14 2008 03:47 PM

i would go with "As-A-Low-Knee" but "Ass Alone" is much funnier, could you get away with calling him that?

KC
Feb 14 2008 04:03 PM

Googled this:

Re: another butt name--this one's for real

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, DEACON ALLEY wrote:
> Some of my relative have the unfortunate surname of "Assalone."
> What's more, they pronounce it "Ass alone," rather than a more
> correct Italian pronunciation of "Assalon-ay.'

Detroit contains a lot of - Armenians? with the surname "Anusbigian" - a
colleague who once did phone survey work TRIED to ask for Mrs. "Annis -
bigian" and was corrected - "That's ANUS-bigian!"

How low can we go?

Sophomorically yours,
Lola

Farmer Ted
Feb 14 2008 06:23 PM

Reminds me of the Asswipe Johnson sketch with Nicholas Cage on SNL (can't find the video).

"The name is As-weep-ay!!"

KC
Feb 15 2008 12:40 PM

I asked someone from Italy, she confirms - ass a loh nay.

Soft but firm accent on the loh.

SteveJRogers
Feb 22 2008 07:15 PM

]Reminds me of the Asswipe Johnson sketch with Nicholas Cage on SNL (can't find the video).

"The name is As-weep-ay!!"

Or the beer (IIRC Natural Light) commercial about the "thick headed" guy on an interview that sees a name on a nameplate and thinks it is pronounced "Dumb Ass" and keeps repeating it, until the guy at the desks says calmly, "The name is DU-Mas."