[Stosh]

Thanks for that post - it really touched my heartstrings.

I wish I had a chance to tell Pat there really is at least one advantage to having an unpronounceable Polish name with a bunch of silent letters: you always know when it’s a telemarketer on the phone. Although I guess if you’re Pat Sajak, you may not have to worry about telemarketers that much.

[Albion Wilde]

I wish I had a chance to tell Pat there really is at least one advantage to having an unpronounceable Polish name with a bunch of silent letters: you always know when it’s a telemarketer on the phone.

I hear you! I have been trying to find the name of an oil painter artist who, in the 50s and early 60s, lived in Beltsville, Marlyand and whose name was badly mangled in Tidewater English as "SOCK-se-vik."

Here are some of the online searches I have done of Polish last names to try to find a match or a phonetic root:

Satkowski
Sawicki
Sienkiewicz
Siok
Skoczylas
Skonieczny
Skowronek
Skrzypczak
Skrzypek
Slusarczyk
Sobczyk
Sobkowiak
Sokalski
Sokolik
Staszewski
Stocki
Stolarczyk
Stopka
Swierczek
Szczepanek
Szewczyk
Szymkowiak
Zajkowski