: Re: Can one of my POV characters have the last name Thibodaux and get published? I live in Louisiana, and names with french origins are very common here. So we all know how they're pronounced.

I don't think this would be a problem, personally.
If you do find that your beta readers are struggling to pronounce "Thibodaux", or a publisher advises that the name may be an issue, a simple solution would be to include a sequence in the book where another character pronounces it wrong and Thibodaux corrects them.
As an example, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire includes a sequence where Hermione tries to teach Viktor Krum how to pronounce her first name. JK Rowling later confirmed that she included that scene because she found that a lot of fans were pronouncing "Hermione" wrong.

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