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We once played a game with our Scouts group to help everyone memorise the names of Scouts who had just joined us.

Whenever someone mispronounced ‘Nikolaj’ (a new Scout of Slovak descent), his two friends would correct us with the proper pronunciation.

Other leaders and I were corrected at least ten times each. I felt embarrassed that, as a native speaker of a Slovak language, I struggled to pronounce ‘Nikolaj’.

Months later I learnt they were doing a bit from ‘Brooklyn 99’.