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[sayga.livejournal.com]

1. So, you know on Alice in Wonderland, her cat's name is Dinah (Dye-nuh). Is that how you spell it? Or is Dinah pronounced like Dee-nah? How about Dena or Dina? Are all of these pronounced Dee-nuh? And once you get the right spelling for DYE-nuh, does it sound like you're saying "diner" with a British accent, or does it actually sound like a name?

2. Which of these is better, if any (for someone hoping to get the nickname "Kes" out of it):
Kes
Kessa
Kesana / Kesanna
Kesandra / Kessandra
Kesandria / Kesandrea or Kessandria / Kessandrea

3. Is Anice or Annis too close to "anus" to be a good name?

4. How would you pronounce Evalena? I'm thinking ehv-ah-LEE-nuh, but maybe the first letter says eee instead of eh.

5. How about Adeline? ah-dah-lynn, ah-dah-leen, or ah-dah-line (line as in clothes line)? It isn't a terribly common name, but it's very close to Madeline. Like Addison to Madison. I think I'd avoid using either of those, just because they are so close to a popular name. (well, Addison is #107 for 2005, so still popular, but no where near as popular as Madison is).

Comments

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

haha I didn't think of Dinah being Diner until you said it. Now it sounds like Diner to me..

For Kes i like Kessa or Kesandria. However Ive met someone named Kezia and people call her Kez. You could make is Kesia though.. wait people may pronounce the end like Asia.. Ke-SIA..maybe not. idk..

Are you saying Anice/Annis like "AH-niece (like the spice)" or "anne-nis"? Annis is too ugly and close to anus. But Anice pronounced like the spice is fine.. except its a spice. Better than Anus though.

I say Evalena the same way as you, but this is my first time seeing it. I do like it though.

Im not sure about Adeline..

[sayga.livejournal.com]

see, i say ANN-iss for the spice, not aw-niss or aw-niece. i meant anice like the spice, but obviously you and i pronounce that word differently!

thanks for imput on the other.s

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

haha yeah we must say it differently. I probably say it wrong. I cant say I talk about the spice on a daily basis.
Oh my , I totally probably was watching a cooking show and some french chef said AH-niece.. and now i say it with a terribly hidious english accent!

ANN-iss is a bit to anus sounding for me.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

1. i think dinah is beautiful; it's on my list. :) it's hebrew. it's pronounced DIE-na and i don't think it sounds like diner... haha.
2. i like kessa and kesandra.
3. why not use alice?
4. ehv-ah-LEE-nuh
5. AD-uh-line

[-door-.livejournal.com]

1. Yeah Dye nuh. Haha I never thought of it being diner. I love that book.
2. Kessa and Kesana/Kesanna aren't bad, but I'm not a big fan of the other ones.
3. Yes.
4. yeah I would think ehvahleenuh.
5. I dont know, I pronounced it ah dah line but that could be wrong.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

1. Dye-na, in my accent (same as Alice's!), with the na being like 'narrative', not nuh like 'nut'. Diner is -nuh.
2. Kezia.
3. Not really similar to me - ANN-is vs. AY-nus.
4. Ev-ah-LEE-na or ev-ah-LAY-na.
5. AD-del-line.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

1. I'd say Dinah is "DYE-nuh", and that is also the way I pronounce "diner" because I have an Australian accent. That doesn't make it sound any less like a name though, and I don't think of diners when I'm saying it! I don't know how you'd spell it if it was pronounced deena

2. I can't think of a name that I already know of, which has Kes as a nickname. Kessandra would get too confused with Cassandra, the others would be ok i guess

3. Recently I was reading a recipe which has anise in it and I thought it would make a pretty name. I pronounce it like "uh-NEES" though, so it sounds nothing like anus. The way you pronounce it does sound more like that

4. I pronounce it the same way you do. Evv-uh-LEE-nuh

5. ADD-a-line

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

2. Keziah can also be shortened to Kez, which seems to be pronounced the same as Kes.
4. I would say ee-vah-lee-na
5. I would say ad-ah-leen

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Keziah... is the "iah" on the end like in "jeremIAH" or "marIA"?

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

Like MarIA.

[super-bitch06.livejournal.com]

1.) I pronouce Dinah DYE-nuh. Dena and Dina i pronounce dee-nuh. And I didn't hear 'diner' at all until you mentioned it! So I thinks it's okay :-p

2.) I like Kessa best.

3.) Oh, goodness, yes. Way to close! Sorry.

4.)Eh-va-LEEN-uh.

5.)I like ah-de-line and ah-deh-lynn. They are both lovely.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

1.Dinah is Rachel's precious daughter from the Bible! I like the name, and I pronounce it Dye-nuh.
2. I like Kessa and Kesana for the nn Kes.
3. Annis and Anice don't LOOK too much like anus, but they do sound too much like it. As a mn I think it would be ok. Then it doesn't have to be shared.
4. I would say Ehv-uh-LEE-nuh, and I really like it. I like it way better than Evelyn.
5. I would say Adeline with INE like clothesline. I ADORE Addison and wish it wasn't gaining in popularity so much. It's on my top 5, and I don't think I could make it go down unless I met a bunch of little Addisons. I love it.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know Dinah is Rachel's daughter. Have you read The Red Tent? That's REALLY where I started liking the name. It's such an awesome book. But in the book, it says something that suggests it's pronounced with a Dee in the front instead of Die, but it didn't make sense. So I thought I'd ask. I like Dinah, but not Dina.

I have also read The Red Tent

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

According to www.my-hebrew-name.com Dinah (http://www.my-hebrew-name.com/view.cgi?image=dinah.gif&name=dinah&id=5801) is pronounced Dee-nah.
If you look at the word in Hebrew the first letter is Dalet, so there's the "D" and the dot underneath is how you indicate the vowel. One dot underneath means an "ee" sound (whereas two side by side dots are "ay", three triangular dots are "eh", a line is "ah" a dot on top of the letter is "oh" and 3 diagonal dots underneath are "oo")
So, the first part of the name is Dee, the next letter is Yod which is usually silent unless it has a vowel attatched. After that is Nun which is "N" and the symbol underneath also means "ah". The last letter is Hey or "H".
so Dalet, Yod, Nun, Hey is pronounced Dee-nah.
Now in different parts of the world, and through translations over time, the name could certainly be pronounced Dye-nah but the original Hebrew is Dee-nah, and that is why they suggest it in The Red Tent.

[heyitsrebecca.livejournal.com]

1. I pronounce Dinah like "dee-nah" but it appears I'm in the minority.
2. No comment.
3. Yes.
4. My first thought was 'eev'.. but I guess *if you made it up, you can pronounce it how you want.
5. I love Adeline, with the line pronunciation. I do foresee it becoming somewhat popular, since it has the same 'feel' as Madeline and Addison.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

2. no comment cause you hate all of them? you can say it if you do. if i didn't want ANYONE to tell me they hated it, i wouldn't've posted it in here.

4. no, i didn't make up Evalena. it was in the top 1000 names in the 1880s. #850.

[heyitsrebecca.livejournal.com]

2. No comment 'cause I couldn't think of anything really nice to say. LOL Kessa *sounds nice, but I wouldn't dream of using it on a real person. But if you want the nn Kess.. Kessa or Kessandra would be my vote.. Kessandria is a little.. well.. much.

4. I wasn't saying you did, I just wasn't sure and was too lazy to look it up, LOL Evalena.. hmm. I'd still prnounce it Ee-va.. I like it better that way. =D

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Dinah = dy-nuh
Dena = dee-nuh
Dina = either, depending on your accent

[twoheadedboi.livejournal.com]

I'm British, so to me diner and Dinah are pronounced the same.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

1) dye-nah definetly not dee-nah

2)I like kessa and kesanna the best out of all of them

3) LOL um now that you mention it.. way too close to anus..

4)Eeeve-a-lee-nah

5) I don't like adeline, but I do like madeline, funny how that works.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

(I didn't read the other comments so if I'm repeating, I apologize)

1. Dinah is dye-nah as far as I know and Dina is dee-nah (and I would assume Dena would be be dee-nah as well, but I don't know anyone with it spelled that way)

2. I'm really not sure about any of those because they all seem really odd to me (which is not necessarily a bad thing). My only thing would be that most of that last row could be easily confused with Cassandra (or any other spelling of that name)

3. I think it is. I don't go crazy trying to think of ways my (future) children could be made fun of for their names, but that just screams bad idea to me.

4. I would think eh-vah-LEE-nuh which is really close to what you have and may end up sounding the same.

5. ad-ah-line is how I've always heard it pronounced.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

1. In Alice she does call her cat Dinah and it is spelled Dinah. But perhaps Dye-nuh is a British pronunciation because the actual pronunciation of the Biblical name Dinah (as in Jacob's daughter) is Dee-nah, Dina and Deena would just be alternative spellings of Dinah.

2. I don't really like any of the "Kes" begining names you listed. I think Kessia is nice though.

3. Yes it is too close to Anus, in my opinion.

4. I'd say Ehv-ah-LEE-nuh

5. I'd say ah-duh-LINE, unless the person were french in which case I'd say ah-del-een.

[lilfaeriegirl.livejournal.com]

you could always go with Annice, and call her annie or ann for short.

[kati-d.livejournal.com]

i love the name Addy and have been in search of a longer name for it. I used to like Addison.. but thenm I started associating it with madison.. and i hate that name plus its popularity craze so I removed it prompltly from the list. The other options are Adele and Adeline. and Id pronounce it Add - Duh - Line. :) and NN her Addy :)

[sayga.livejournal.com]

and Adelaide.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_x_blackroses_x/]

1. I like Dinah and that movie. I pronounce it "Dye-nuh." I would say that Deena is "dee-nuh" & Dina is ok, but I like it with the h better. And Dinah's a great name.

2. I like Kessandra best, though that's because I like Cassandra and it'll probably get mistaken for that.

3. I didn't think of "anus" but now that you mention it...xDD I like Anise though. Like the spice.

4. Hmm. "EHV a leen uh," "EEV a leen uh," or "AYV a leen uh"? I think I'd say "AYV a leen uh."

5. Adeline is good. I say "add-uh-line." Like in that song "Sweet Adeline"...

[sayga.livejournal.com]

yeah, i say add-uh-line, but mad-uh-lynn. so...that was a weird realization and i thought i'd ask if i was saying it wrong.

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

In the audio book for The Red Tent by Anita Diamant the name Dinah (the main character of the book) is pronounced DEE-nah.

Adeline is AD-a-line (like clothesline) in the Elliot Smith song.

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

I am a cassandra and no one ever asks me how to spell my name...they always get it right. that being said I would just about garuantee if you went with kessandra she would constantly have to be correcting people and sending things back to be fixed.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

1. I think it is Dinah. Dee-nuh is Dina maybe. I'm british & Diner sounds about right for Dinah, although we dont have diner's over here! Thats more so the word for someone who is eating out, dining lol.

2. I dont like any of those, but what about Kesia/Kezia.

3. hmm i dont like either od those names, but i do like Anais.

4. I'd say Ever-lena.

5. At first i would say ad-uh-line but i think i prefer ad-uh-lyn, but im not sure how you would spell that without it looking super trendy.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Oh btw, Kezia is a strange one, i was so close to being named Kezia & the IA is pronounced like Maria. My cousin was then called Keziah & that is still pronounced the same, howveer my firend Kizzy is a Keziah also but it's pronounced Kez-eye-uh like Jeremiah.