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Originally Posted by pylon
As a Polish Guy and a Jew, who has a 'jew' in my original last name.... the pronunciation would be.
Vall-tear-ee Ig-nat-cheff.
I know he's Finnish, but that name looks very Polaky to me.
Edit: Read it again, and corrected.
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It’s not. Finland was part of the Russian Empire until 1917. There are lots of people with Russian ancestry over there. Ignatjew is a very common Russian last name (meaning literally “son of Ignat”); just an awkward spelling evolved over time, similar to Kiprusoff. Michael Ignatieff (former Liberal party leader) has the same last name origin; it’s pronounced same but spelled differently.