Names can be kind of funny sometimes, but it’s rude to make fun of someone for the handle that their parents assigned them. Except if it’s really funny.
France’s new prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, is making the Arab world snicker, because his last name is sounds very close to a Lebanese and Palestinian slang word for “penis.” It’s led broadcasters to make great efforts to pronounce the last two letters of his name in a non-French way so it doesn’t sound so funny.
Meanwhile, somewhere there has to be a world leader with the last name “Dong.”