My people

This morning we arrived in Bergen and discovered that our hotel has free WiFi access. All you need to do is enter your room number and last name and you're in. So I tried it and got a message that my name didn't match my room. I called downstairs to see what the problem was and she asked me to spell my last name, which starts with an O. As soon as I began, she said "oh, your name begins with an Ø [which is sort of pronounced "oo", but with some strange tongue contortions]...why don't you enter Ø instead." When I couldn't figure out how to do that, they had to go in and change my name in their system to de-Norwegianise it. At least I didn't also have to enter an å...