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Originally Posted by Glice
It's pronouncing 'Noam' (Nome) as 'No-am' that gets on my wick the most I think.
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The reason people do that is because there are a lot of Jewish-Americans with Israeli relatives who want to impressed them by pronouncing it the Hebrew way.
I think it's funny to pronounce it 'nome' as it undermines him in my head and relegates him to an ineffectual, ugly, short guy holding a fishing rod in my garden.