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Interesting

It even mentions: " However, many last names were altered slightly due to the disparity between English and other languages in the pronunciation of certain letters of the alphabet"

Unfortunately their source [34] is a link that does not exist anymore at that URL



I can certainly see a phonetic name being created for a Cyrillic-using person. The others -- I suppose it was a case of "accented characters are hard" so they got dropped.




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