Tania

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

My supervisor and I got into a debate: How do you pronounce Tania?

Comments

[magpiefirefly.livejournal.com]

Tan-ya

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

+1

[roxtarrr.livejournal.com]

Same

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

yup

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[stacyinthecity.livejournal.com]

Tan - ee - uh

[fivepoints.livejournal.com]

Tawn-ya would be my first though.

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

This.

[manabanana.livejournal.com]

+1, even though I hate the 'tania' spelling.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

This here.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

I have read a book where a location was named Tania and I say "TAY-nee-uh" in my head. For a name, I hadn't even considered it was an alternate of Tonya until I saw the comments, and I would have guessed TAY-nee-uh or tuh-NEE-uh.

[muggleish.livejournal.com]

That was how I read it too. TAY-nee-uh"

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

The "real" answer is that it's pronounced however the bearer pronounces it. (Throatwobbler Mangrove?)

My best guess (eg if I was calling roll etc) would be "Tah-ni-ah". But I would not be surprised to hear "It's Tanya", "It's Tan-ee-a", "It's Tay-ni-ah", or a bajillion other things.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

I agree about what the "real" answer is. However, I wasn't speaking with the person I only had the name on a sheet of paper and had to say it.

[pirahan.livejournal.com]

It's probably pronounces like Ashley or some random bull shit like that.

But first rxn is Tanya.

[manabanana.livejournal.com]

"it's probably pronounced like ashley or some random bull shit like that"

*DIES*

[magpiefirefly.livejournal.com]

Best.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

tan-yuh
Though with that spelling 'tan-ee-yuh' wouldn't suprise me.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

This.

But yeah, I could also see Ton-yuh, or Tan-ee-uh. Tan-nye-yuh would be a stretch.


Either way, awful name IMO.

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Ta-bye-yuh is spelled Taniyah, I have a student with that name.

[jexia]

Ta-ni-ah.



Tanya is Tanya.

[madeyemads.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Tan-ya.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

Tarn-ee-a

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I'd say tan-ya but I worked with a tarn-ya nn. Tarn

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Ta-nee-ah, Tan-ya is spelled the way it's pronounced.

[mrssubee.livejournal.com]

Tahn-yuh

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Either TAN-ya or TAN-ee-a. I would say the latter.

[wolf-shadow.livejournal.com]

Tahn-ya is, I guess, technically correct, but growing up I knew a Tar-nee-yah so I see that as valid too even though most of me knows it isn't really :P
Tan ee ah is also accurate.

To me it would depend on the Cyrillic spelling (I'm a Russianist), and I've seen both ways used as the short for Tatiana, depending on whether the user preferred Tan'ia or Taniia as the spelling.

[maddiec24.livejournal.com]

I always think of Arsenio Hall's joke about Sade when I hear these debates. "My name is Bob, but it's pronounced 'Linoleum'". Or words to that effect. If I see Tania, I'm going to pronounce it "Tanya/Tonya".

[blueorange94.livejournal.com]

Tahn-ya.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Either TAN-ya or TAHN-ya.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

The same way you pronounce Tanya and Tanja.
Tan-yuh.