May-23-2012, 06:04 AM (UTC)
I've heard the funniest pronounciations of my name during the last few months (and seen it written Merbi and Merwe even after spelling it out). I never guessed it is such a difficult name for native English speakers, after all you have the name Mervyn with all its variants. Basically you pronounce it as if you were going to say "merry" but switch the second r for a hard v as in "vintage". Easy as.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny