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[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I work at a summer program at an elementary school and have come across the following...unique names. Discuss.

*these three are all girls, by the way

Lyric (Leer-ick)
Camera (Cam-er-uh)
Kahlan (Kay-lawn)

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[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

As someone alluded to above, Kahlan is a character from a best selling book series. I like it based on that (it's a very strong female character), but my husband and pronouce it different ways and that would definitely confuse a child. ;)
I dislike Lyric and Camera, although Camera seems like you could say it with a Spanish accent it maybe it wouldn't sound so bad.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Yes, we'd always pronounced Kahlan with an AH sound, as the spelling suggests, and were flabbergasted to learn that Goodkind says it with an AY. (Then why not spell it that way, I wonder?)

[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

I wondered too, but I prefer the way he says to pronounce it. My husband is the opposite.