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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in Australia and it’s popular there so it kind of grew on me[/quote] I love it but I think it sounds better with an Australian accent. A lot of Americans will find it weird and will pronounce it in the flattest tone possible (like the second syllable of Laverne) and it won't sound pretty. This is true of so many names that are popular in England, Scotland, Ireland, or Australia. My family English and I have lots of family in the UK, and we considered a ton of names that we just knew that it would annoy us to hear them pronounced with an American accent. We weren't even considering the hard to pronounce options, but there are just a lot of names that sound best in their home country. We wound up using a Greek name that is relatively popular in the UK but also familiar in the US. It just travels better. But if we were living in the UK we might have gone with something more like Fern.[/quote]
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