UncleEd, that was my 1st rationalization for a last name spelled like that. But, for all intents & purposes, I, personally, am going to pronounce the name in my head the way my 12 year-old brain sees fit!!!
I can imagine the 1st day of school when teacher is taking roll call when she/he comes to that name!
The guy in the fort would be me, in the past before I became numb to all the spelling & grammatical errors by reading social media websites' posts by its members. Hmmm...(I'm one now!)
Also, about awkward last names, we were working at a school in a different county from here and a young teacher, obviously into her 7th-8th month of pregnancy, was named Miss Virgin. Stuff that you can't make up! I wanted to ask her if her name was Mary, with a man friend named Joseph.
It never ceases to amaze me the diversified tastes in humor here. From my vantage point, I see favorites selected all the time, that are not mine. What that does for me, is it takes the pressure off to measure everything posted by my standards.