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[anapology.livejournal.com]

Just read the post on Anais, for the longest time i thought it was an-ay, like the perfume..
i love it pronounced the way i did, i think it's beautiful...
so i dont like botched names, or krey88iv names but it was in my top 5 (until i realised it was wrong!)

1) would anyone use a nme they had made up?

2)how on earth would i spell it!?

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[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

Hold up. You are correct! Anais is a name. Anais Nin was a famous author - published diaries and erotica. The name is pronounced "Ana-EESE". She was discovered to be a bigamist (married to two men) unbeknownst to either of the men until after her death.

See wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin