Stein

It never ceases to amaze me that people can't pronounce or spell "Stein". I had both happen in the past couple of days. The local grocery store has a policy of thanking customers by name, which I'm OK with, but it's almost insulting when they pronounce it wrong which happens about one in four times. I realize my name isn't as common as Jones, Smith, Johnson, or Suzuki. And it does violate the "i before e..." rule.

However, stein is a word that's been part of the English language for 100 years. And there's a fairly famous scientist named Einstein, spelled and pronounced the same way.

No one pronounces the President's name as if it rhymes with "hush".

Bregel is hard, Aristodemo is pretty tricky, Kline and Klein are both common, Saltalamacchia and Yastrzemski are tongue twisters. But Stein should be easy for anyone old enough to order a beer.