[Phil]

I believe it is probably due to language. My friends in Japan have mentioned that American words like ‘Root’ and ‘Beer’ will be altered into ‘Root-ou’ and ‘Beer-ou’ to make them easier for Japanese speakers to pronounce. The tendency is to ’round out’ any words ending in hard syllables. This would be the equivalent of an American not properly rolling his R’s when speaking French, because that sound doesn’t really occur in English very much, and is therefore hard to pronounce. Any names chosen by a first-generation immigrant would therefore tend to end in a vowel instead of a consonant (i.e. ‘Danny’ instead of ‘Dan’) because it would be easier for that person and his friends/family to speak their ‘American-ized’ name. I’m not Asian, so I may be way off base in my theory about this. I’d love to hear from someone who could debunk or confirm this idea.

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Name : Phil, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Taoist, Age : 27, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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