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I'd definitely get frustrated and work with them and correct them. I know this because I went through something very similar with my maiden surname. It was actually not difficult to pronounce, but it was unusual and ethnic, and people tended to blank when they first heard it and when they saw it written, and then mispronounce it. I found it frustrating to no end.

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However, the exception would be if I were talking to a person I didn't know, had never spoken to before, and would never speak to again. I know this because I work on the phone and in the course of my work, my first name, although again not difficult to pronounce, is frequently misheard as Janet or Candice, and once in a while as Shannon. I have found it not worth the effort to correct this, when I'm never going to speak to this person again.