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[corielcries.livejournal.com]

I have two questions for you wonderful people...

Question one: How do you pronounce Odessa?

Question two:
What are some names you can think of with the possible nickname of Kate? Nothing too common like Katherine or Katie, and I'm not very fond of Kathleen.

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Katarina?

I think of Kate as a stand-alone.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

OH-dehs-uh

[aaww-my-bees.livejournal.com]

I say it like AH-dess-uh.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

oh-DESS-uh

Katriel
Katelyn

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Katrina or Catriona.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Oh-DESS-a, like the city.

Katrine, Katrina

[satunian.livejournal.com]

It's a variant of katherine, but I've always loved the name Katerina

[tunknut.livejournal.com]

oh-DESS-ah

There are lots of great variations of Katherine that work with Kate as a nickname. I especially like Katharina, Katja, Katrien, and Catalina, as well as plain old Katherine/Katie. I also think the spelling Katharine is much more glamorous than Katherine, which is somewhat boring haha.

[maniacalapricot.livejournal.com]

oh-DESS-ah. :)

[serdyuchkafan.livejournal.com]

The prn. of Odessa depends. I'm Ukrainian, so I've always pronunced it as "ah-DESS-ah" :) But living in the States, I've heard "oh-DESS-ah".

[jintana.livejournal.com]

Katya and other Russian versions.

[sweethoneybee.livejournal.com]

I have a Kaitlyn that goes by a nickname of Kate.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

You mean like the city in Texas?

OH-DESS-UH.

Also, you could use Caitlin, Katrina...

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

Katerina, Katrina, Katya/Katia

[ladymela99.livejournal.com]

Katrina
Kaitlyn/Caitlin/Kaitlin
Katie (I think that works as a stand alone name)
Katherina--a great Shakespearean name (very close to Katarina, but a bit different).

Or as others have said Kate can just be a classy name by itself.

[seksimaggie.livejournal.com]

Oh-dess-uh.
Katelynn?

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Ekaterina, Katrine

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

oh-DESS-uh.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

O-dess-uh.

[jyl-mac.livejournal.com]

Oh-dess-ah. And, I would steer clear of Kate there are literally 6 million people with some form of the name, lets mix it up here!