emmsie69 wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Again, purely on the name thing, wonder if his nickname Jomo is 'Yomo', like Johannus, or Jomo (soft 'j'). (Or maybe he's dropped the 'y' sound, even for Johannus? Always liked the fact that Johanna Konta has insisted that she is not Jo-anna, as in Joe, by Yohanna).

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As a (non-native) German-speaker, I would instinctively choose the "Y" sound, but I'm guessing - obviously - that, unless one or other of his parents has some Dutch or German blood in his/her veins, they're bog standard monolingual Brits & won't have insisted on the "J" pronounced as a "Y", so it will be "Joe-mo", especially if the friends referred to in the article are those made in east Yorkshire.  I read for my degree at Hull & actually lived in hall in Cottingham & unless things have changed drastically since I was there, people still aren't that, how shall I put it, outward-looking.  Can't see the Yanks "buying" "Yomo" anyway.

I well remember watching a media interview with Johanna a few years back during which one of the journos addressed her as "Joanna" & she immediately snapped back "It's Yo-Hanna".  I thought:  "Good for her"! 

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 Slightly different but when people refer to Emma as Em I cringe, as a fellow Emma I hate it and if anyone calls me Em I add the ma as a gentle reminder 

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 Its like the duchess of Cambridge , she was called Kate by the media, but she has always been a Catherine , no one she knows calls her Kate and, indeed, who uses Kate anyway , if you shortened it yourself , Cathy is more likely. My wife is a Catherine and it really irks her!