[Jan S]

some people genuinely have a kind of sound-blindness when it come to names; sometimes it depends on where you're from, too, and which names and collections of sounds you are familiar with.

my name is Jan - how hard can it be? but half of my non-native english speaking customers call me Jane, no matter how often i've gently pointed it out. those having the worst problems seem to come from eastern europe, lithuania/russia, and areas in africa. my chinese, indo-asian and western europeans seem not to have the same dfficulties.