Call Me Anything You Want, Just Don't Call Me Late for Dinner

I'm reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the third and final book of the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millenium Series. This book, and the first two in the series, are fantastic, but I have found the names of characters and places extremely confusing. Not only can't I pronounce many of them, but I have trouble telling the names apart. I've even mixed up names of places with names of people! I read with interest a post by Billie Sucher on the Career Hub Blog, which has nothing to do with these books, but is about the pronunciation of names, particularly in the context of job interviews (The 'Name Thing' and Your Job Search).

I've never had a problem with people mispronouncing my name — it's pretty straightforward — but I have known several people whose names were continuously mangled. Some were offended by it and others didn't really care. When you go on a job interview, it is best to err on the side of caution when dealing with the interviewer's name. In her post, Ms. Sucher has some very good ideas for ways to discover how to correctly pronounce an interviewer's name. One of her readers also posted another idea in one of the comments, so don't forget to scroll all the way down.