Can we spell it Anna but use the Ana pronunciation?
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Anonymous
I think OP is correct. As far as I know Anna is "ANNE-uh" and Ana is "AH-nuh". |
Anonymous
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It's Änna,
You need the two dots above the A which is called an "umlaut". The correct spelling for the character in Frozen is Anna. In English, the same name is Anna, it's just pronounced different in English speaking countries.If you are pronouncing it with a Norwegian (where the film is fictionally based) accent, It would be pronounced as it is in the movie. To spell it in a way which defines the accent used for correct pronunciation, you need to accent the A with an umlaut, which, if said phonetically makes more of an "oh" sound. Similar to how you would pronounce the A in the ford father as opposed to how it is pronounced in words like And. In father, the A has a longer more ahhh sounding pronunciation. Whereas in And it's a short sharp Ah.The A with an umlaut achieves this. The issue you may have with this is that many places where you can officially register baby names do not allow accented letters as they don't actually exist in your english alphabet. Places make all manner of excuses for their reasons why not, but as some places do it, there;'s no legal reason preventing this. It's just that most places don't know how to make these Characters appear. If you really want to use an accented character in a name, you'd be best prepared for places telling you this by knowing how to do it yourself and educating people. Here's a link on how to do it. http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html If this helps could you update the original post to show the correct way to do it. Ana works for the pronunciation, but if you truly want Anna for the history of the name too it needs to be Änna. as Anna and Ana are different names with different histories. |
Anonymous
| I am an adult Anna and I get called both Ann-uh and Ah-na. |
Anonymous
| As you can tell from the responses, both spellings are frequently interchanged with both pronunciations. If you pick either of those spellings, you will be dealing with both pronunciations for the child's lifetime. My aunt was Elena pronounced eh-LAY-nuh, but was frequently called EH-leh-nuh. I've seen several different spellings of the name and it's just a consequence of those names that there are multiple accepted spellings and pronunciations. If you don't want to deal with this, pick a different name. |
Anonymous
| I'm struggling with this right now! I really love the name because DH's mom is an Anita from El Salvador and my Dutch grandmother is an Annika. I want to name her Anna (AWN-na) and am very conflicted as to if I want to honor the family pronunciation or make it easier for her peers to say. |
Anonymous
No, in German every letter is pronounced. There are no silent letters used to modify the pronunciation of other letters. Anne is pronounced Ann-eh, not Annie though. If the person is really German, that is. Doesn't sound like it somehow. |
Anonymous
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I have a friend who named her baby Laila but pronounces it Lila.
Forever correcting people and it's been 6 years |
Anonymous
What? You're joking right? |
Anonymous
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Oh yay, finally a chance to use my Linguistics Degree!
Anna, pounced like Little Orphan Annie but with an a, is pronounced [æn?] (/?æn?/) Anna, like the character in frozen, is pronounced [ana] (/?anna/) |
Anonymous
Oh darn it, my IPA didn't translate. Silly schwa! |
Anonymous
Well, I know a 2 year old Ana and it is pronounced Ann- uh. |
Anonymous
| My baby's name is Anna. People pronounce it 50-50 either ann-uh or awn-uh. |
Anonymous
| Ana is a popular Spanish name, spelled A-N-A, pronounced AH-na. Disney is wrong. I command that you go reevaluate your life now |
Anonymous
| I knew a girl with this name. I think she was German? |
Anonymous
| You will probably have to correct people once, but they should get it. Pretty name. |