My husband is a Tamilian with a long-ish name :). When some especially snooty customer representative asks me to 'just say' his name, instead of spelling it (which I always offer to do for their benefit!), I have great fun. As an NRI, I can relate to the name-syndrome. But unless I they are my friends, I make sure they call me by my entire name :). If we can pronounce their names, I don't see any reason they can't pronounce ours. After all, not all of them are named John :)
