[MicroBob]

I had a head-resident guy in college named Wang Gang.

I believe in China or Taiwan (can't remember) it's sometimes okay to change around the first and last names.

Also didn't seem to state a preference as to whether he preferred it pronounced like Wong (rhymes with Bong, I believe you could do that with an 'A') or Wang (rhymes with Bang).

So you had all kinds of different fun possibilities when saying his name including:

Gang Wang
Wong Gong
Wang Gong
etc etc

Usually we just called him 'Wang'. He was actually a pretty nice guy and was pretty relaxed about all the snickering people did about his name.


Also am friends with a Taiwanise woman who I used to deal black-jack with named Pei-Pei which is pronounced Pay-Pay.
She would try to tell the players that it meant, "So I will Pay Pay You!" or something like that.

But after enough dumb "Pee Pee" jokes by drunk, obnoxious players she decided to just get a new name-tag using just her last name of Pan.