pronunciations.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i've been wanting to make this post for awhile now. basically it'll be members asking others: how is [name] pronounced?. it's not really a post asking how you prefer to pronounce a name..it's just that there are some names that i really do not know how to pronounce whatsoever and i figured that i'm not alone in this. i thought this could be helpful.

so i'll list mine and you list yours. hopefully we can help each other out. :]
how do you pronounce?
aoife?
rhiannon? (idk if it's REE-ann-inn or RYE-ann-inn)



also, if your name gets mispronounced often or if you know of names that are often mispronounced, post them here.

my example: my name is hana. it's not pronounced like hannah. it's more like HAH-nuh. it rhymes with nirvana. i get called hannah all the time. =/ that's not my name!! so, if you meet a 'hana', don't call her hannah! :]

Comments

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

GAH I FEEL YOUR PAIN.

My daughter is Annika. "AHHH-nick-ah. NOT "AYNNN-nick-uh". Although occasionally she gets "ah-KNEE-kah" instead, but that one isn't so bad, because its what her brother calls her anyway, and as a nickname, it stucked. :-p

There was a name on my friend's sons's class list that I just couldnt figure out how to pronounce at all. It was some variation of the "jay/bray" type names, though.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i love annika! it's such a pretty name. it's ah-KNEE-kah spelled anika usually?

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

Annika ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ I haven't heard that name in forever. I'd forgotten how much I love it.