http://users.livejournal.com/-----citylight/ ([identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/-----citylight/) wrote in [community profile] babynames2008-08-21 06:47 pm

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How do you pronounce Anaïs?
There's so many different pronunciations, I'm interested to find out the correct one.

[identity profile] fairyfantastic.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'd go with ann-ay

[identity profile] 0o-faerie.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ah-Nah-EE.

Some people here (in The Netherlands) pronounce it like Ah-nah-EES, though.

[identity profile] goaskyourmother.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
A_Nay

[identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
The correct one is Ah-nah-EE-ss.

[identity profile] seasonofspring.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
anna-EES

[identity profile] duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
This is how I pronounce it.

[identity profile] tokossel.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
ana-ees is the french pronounciation. and it's a french name. ;)

[identity profile] tokossel.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
btw i have never, ever heard it pronouced 'an-ay'- i don't know how that even makes sense?

[identity profile] quite-rosie.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to answer :-x

[identity profile] inktip.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
When I was 12 or something, there was a girl pop group I was in love with that had a girl named that. I heard it pronounced as AN-EESE.

[identity profile] duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, that group Play? I remember them!

[identity profile] inktip.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
i still listen to their CDs haha

[identity profile] elemmennope.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
ah-nah-eese

[identity profile] blue-suspenders.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ann-eye-ees

[identity profile] freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
ah-nah-EES.

[identity profile] twitchywoman.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
ah-nuh-eece (the last part rhyming with niece or fleece).

[identity profile] girlx512.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't there a perfume called that? I always said "ah-nah-EES."

[identity profile] nearlyalegume.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
A work colleague's daughter is called Anaïs, and he says it Ann-AY-iss.