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[happysaid.livejournal.com]

How would you pronounce Mari?

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

MAH-ree.

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Ditto...like the beginning of Marian.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, not in my accent. :) MAH-ree has the a vowel of car or cart. Marian has the a of cat. :D

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh gotcha! Then we're saying it a bit differently then. :)

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

I agree on sounds and pronouncing it that way.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Ditto. (With the "mar" sounding like Martin or Marla.)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Yup.

I should clarify, I didn't write it as MAR-ree, which would have been slightly clearer for the pronunciation, because the R isn't in the emphasised syllable for me.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm with you on that. I don't emphasize the R either. I was just trying to think of some examples with the "ah" sound.

[happysaid.livejournal.com]

Not to be confused with MOOR-ee, right?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I cannot think of a name that would be pronounced MOOR-ee at all in my accent. (Maury is more like m-OWWW-ree, Morrie like MOH-ree, but neither are common names over here.)

[shanniedotnet.livejournal.com]

like mary

[so-there.livejournal.com]

ditto.

I know someone with the unfortunate name of mariceleste (pronounced like mary-celeste) but she just goes by mari.

[thunderofsins.livejournal.com]

Mar-E (Mar like the beginning of Marshall or Mark)

[sadblueyes.livejournal.com]

me too.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

me 3 :)

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

MAHR-ee.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

marr-eee.

[seren.livejournal.com]

marry

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

Like Marie.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

MAR-ee, with a bit of a long a, as in Mara.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were pronounced like Marie though.

[happysaid.livejournal.com]

I kind of expected a lot of "Marie" replies, but (in real life) everyone keeps saying "Maury". LJ seems to get it, though. ^.^

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

MAH-ri

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

mah-ree

[happysaid.livejournal.com]

Thanks =) My son picked it for our new dog. I was thrilled it wasn't the average puppy name. (Well, his first suggestion was Apple, but Mari came in second.) We pronounce it the same.

[selador.livejournal.com]

mary

[sherball.livejournal.com]

Mar-ee

not like Mary at all.

[coldheartedbabe.livejournal.com]

same way i would pronounce maury.

[glowing-dragon.livejournal.com]

"Mary"

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

MAR-ree. Like the girl in The Color of Friendship.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Coincidence! Just today, I was trying to think of how you would spell the name MAH-ree to make it obvious that it's not Mary or Marie/Maree. And I came up with Mari as probably the best (although, Marie can have that pronunciation too).

So of course I think of MAH-rie cos that's what I only just thought.

But, maybe I would wonder when I saw it if it was Mary spelled differently. I wouldn't think it's Maree though.