[ Closed ] BONAMASSA! His name Hard to remember? yes! Hard to say? yes!

2frogs-I've had the same experience more than once. I'm glad I now have the business cards, thanks to jim m.  Previous to this and if I was without paper and pen, I told people to remember Bon (like a bonfire) and Mass (like burning hell..kidding) and then put an "A" at the end of both words when they wrote it out.  It's a little iffy, cause you don't want them to think Bon Jovi and you don't want them to think Bono, so the cards are super helpful for remembering the spelling!!!  The name spells just like it sounds, except for whether it has 2 s's.  I think it's the 4 vowels that makes it sound harder than it is and it's not a common name!  I've only seen it once in an advertisement for a lawyer who practices in a nearby town.

Too funny of a topic! Because a family friend of ours is always pronouncing his name "Bossanomo"!!! ... and then I scream the proper pronunciation everytime, and 5 seconds later, he screws it up again. I think Tabasco Habanero to the tongue everytime he messes up Joe's name would be fitting punishment!