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[sherball.livejournal.com]

Which variation of Karen do you like?

[Poll #904775]

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[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

There's also Karin which is my cousin's name.

[sleepherealone.livejournal.com]

I like good old Karen.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with it :) I know a lot of Karen's.. probably too many! ;) Just wanted to see what people liked or didn't like in the different spellings of the name. :)

[shyloh.livejournal.com]

I used to like it spelled Karyn, but as I am getting older, I am prefering the traditional spelling of names. I choose Karen.

[oh-snitch.livejournal.com]

I have a friend named Carin.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

The only ones that I have really seen are Karen, and Caryn. But I kinda like Keren, which isn't Kr8atyve, it's just not seen very often. It's the jewish version of Karen. :) But it's funny that most of the Karen's I know are Jewish.. but don't use the old jewish spelling. :)

[sherball.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. It's kinda sad.

My cousin named his daughter Cassidy.. but god help him he and his girlfriend came up with wacked out spelling that when I saw it for the first time had no freaking clue what it was.. someone had to tell me what her name was. It's something like Khasidahy. Thankfully the girl goes by Kassie :) That makes it easy on all of us!

[lacuna.livejournal.com]

Are Karen and Keren pronounced the same way in the States?

Other than the fact that they're pronounced differently in England ('a' as in apple vs. 'e' as in element), I've noticed people on here suggesting that Carrie and Kerry are equivalent in sound. To me, they're very distinctive from each other.

And Katie, too. I've seen Kadie on here as a variation, but 't' and 'd' sounds are really not the same. To an British ear, the American 't' does seem to be swallowed a bit and turned into a 'd' sound (no offence intended), but I thought there must be a distinction to the American ear between 't' and 'd'.

This is probably more for a linguistic community than baby_names, but it's something I've noticed.

Incidentally, the only other version of Karen I've seen is Caron - the name of a famous TV presenter here, whose (also famous) mother took the spelling from the surname of Leslie Caron, in spite of the slightly different pronunciation.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

Ya know.. I honestly don't know if they would be pronounced differently. I would think that they would be. Keren - Keh-wren vs. Kah-wren. *shrugh*

[sherball.livejournal.com]

I never asked.. and now my cousin is deceased, so I can't ask him now. I never knew his girlfriend/wife? so I would ask her either. I guess I could always ask my aunt and see if she knew what went on with her name! heh

[xcuore.livejournal.com]

i prefer Karin, that's the normal version here in Holland

[moekler.livejournal.com]