Jeez, my dad is going to struggle to pronounce that.
Me too but I guess I'm probably as old or older than your dad.
I have as much a problem with Polish names.
Here where I live in Queensland we have a State government leader with the surname Palaszczuk.
Who would have thought that it's pronounced Palashay ? Certainly not me.
Back in the nineties my wife and I travelled around Europe in a 74 Kombi van and Poland was a nightmare for getting directions.
I gave up on finding Lodz due to all the strange looks that I was getting when asking for some directions.
I was given black looks and angry responses when asking for directions to Auschwitz.
I had my Polish workmates in stitches when I got back to Oz and telling them of my frustration with the lack of help that we received.
They told me that Lodz was pronounced more like Vudch and Auschwitz was the Germanic name given to their village of Oswiecim
and that the old geezers that I had asked would have been mightily offended that I used the German name and not asking for Ozvichim
the Polish name.
It just goes to prove that one really needs to do a bit more research before blindly heading off.
It wasn't all bad news though as we came across a fabulous dish Golabki ( stuffed cabbage ) merely by just pointing at the blackboard and hoping that of
all the things on the menu that we couldn't decipher, that we would find something nice.
Success at last.