Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]

Yeah, where I'm from we have a lot of "scary" names. I think most of the people I know are smart enough to know that you don't pronounce "sz" the way you would in English, but seeing consonants together and not knowing what sound they make.....

I was just looking at all the last names listed here and wondering if they're typical or just getting mentioned because they're so fun to butcher.

I am the proud owner of a German last name that gets butchered just as badly, but I think it's easy. *sigh*

USA, Canada / Why would someone leave Poland for the US? [120]

So what I'm seeing here, as a basic answer to the original question, is that someone would leave Poland for the US because they think they will have a brighter future and/or more money in the US. Whether that is true is always subjective, obviously, from the posts here.

Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]

Hmmmm, are most polish last names tongue-twisters to non-polish types? I'm reading all the stories about mispronunciation and thinking, "hmmmm, his last name is four letters and spelled rather phonetically."