Despite the fact that these words are not spelled alike, the use of English language might disregard the “ ˇ “ -sign placed on the letter S, because this sign does not occur in his own language, so the pronunciation of this name would be identical with the English one. However, this is not the correct pronunciation of this name. The function of the “ ˇ “ -sign is highly significant since it makes the pronunciation of the S consonant soft. An inappropriate utterance could be offensive to its owner since it denotes an unfitting association.
Furthermore, correctly uttered names of foreign origin could prevent misunderstandings that might possible arise by their mispronunciations. The reason for this is the difference between the rules that are individually applied to each language. In a larger context, the diversity of these rules is evident, however, in more narrowed relation, their functions might be left unnoticeable. To explain, a combination of speech sounds, which can consist of only two compounds, could be pronounced differently in one language than in the
other one. For instance, a relatively common English surname Cook, which contains two vowels of the same type, has a completely different interpretation in Dutch language. In the language of the Netherlands, a double occurrence of the phoneme o in the same word obliges the speaker to pronounce them in the way that both phonemes become audible in the pronunciation. In English pronunciation however, the same combination of speech sounds causes an insertion of the sound u, which is the phonetic realisation of the same combination of the phoneme o in a word. Resulting from this, a name, such as Cook or Pool, could be

easily mispronounced. Furthermore, such a mispronunciation might lead to misunderstandings that could consequently result into confused situations. Nowadays, almost seven thousand languages are being spoken in the world. (Ethnologue). Although many languages are related to each other in the capacity of their origin, the diversity of their basic principles contributes to the expansion of the variability of forms of pronounced names. As a result, the same foreign name could be pronounced in various different forms. For example, the correct way of pronouncing the Dutch name Gert is with the ch sound at its beginning. However, that can obtain a different form in other languages. For instance, an Englishman utters the same name according to the established rules of his own language, so the pronunciation of the same initial speech sounds needs to be altered. Hence it becomes identical with the sound that could be heard at the beginning of the word gin.