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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello all - I'm curious to know [b]your[/b] thoughts on potentially hard to say correctly/commonly mispronounced names. For some context, we live in a [i]very[/i] Jewish area where Israeli/Hebrew names are very popular. My DH was born in Israel and our son's name is Nadav. I don't think I've ever heard anyone mispronounce his name.

I'm pregnant with a girl and we've got a few names on the list - Maytal, Adina and Sivan, Sivan being the front runner. Again, I'm sure many people in our area will know and/or make an attempt to learn to pronounce the name but of course, she will not be spending every day of her life in our neighborhood. So my questions are 1) How would you pronounce this name? and 2) Do you believe in giving your children "American" names that are not commonly mispronounced to cut down on constantly having to correct people? I feel that I am a bad judge of this as I have a pretty common name that still gets mispronounced all the time! It doesn't really bother me but I know others have different experiences. [/quote]

And as soon as I hit submit I see a typo  :shock: [/quote]

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