Names you don't know how to pronounce
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| Leapt. - leeped or lept? |
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| Macha |
Anonymous
Ge (hard g) shtault |
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| Hydrography |
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| Archipelago |
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| Maeve |
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Speaking of G...Which G is a "hard G?"
Get or Giraffe? |
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Mave, rhymes with rave. |
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Get is hard, giraffe is soft. The name I struggle with is Lynnea. Baby books say "Lynn Ay Uh" but the one I know is "Lynn A". I like both, but I wouldn't use it unless I was convinced I had the right pronunciation. |
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| Oedipus |
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Ar-ka-PELL-a-go |
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Reminds me of the This American Life episode where they talked about how a lot of people think "misled," is a word pronounced "mye-zelled." And the signs that say Children X-ing, or Deer X-ing are pronounced "zing."
In Psych classes, students often pronounced "onset" as "one -set." As in "sudden one -set of symptoms." |
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Ed short i puss |
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The Maeve I know pronounces it Ma-Vee |
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It took me a hot second to realize my friend who named her kid Kennade meant Kennedy not Ken-ade, like a sports drink.
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