Well, as I'm ure you can understand, I have a last name that's... well, open to interpretation. Most people, on seeing it, use "Far-kwaah". However, my Dad has insisted, ever since I was a little 'un, that the proper Scots pronunciation (it is a Scottish name; the Clan name is Farquharson) is "Farker", like Parker, but with an F instead of a P, so that's the way I use it. Needless to say, it's earned me a few odd stares, not to mention endless ribbing in high school.

When she was over here, though, Jillian insisted that she herself had been to my family's ancestral lands in Scotland, and everyone there pronounced it "Far-kwaah". Which only goes to show.