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[quote=Anonymous]I would look at it and be utterly flummoxed.  I would either associate it with the closest name I can think of, Circe, and pronounce it Sir-see, knowing that was probably incorrect, or try to sound it out as Say-oh-ear-s or Say-oh-ear-see, knowing I was almost certainly mangling it.

Speaking as someone who had both an unusual name and an unusual nickname (although both were spelled phonetically), everybody will get the name wrong.  Adults will pronably have a harder time with it because they have more preconceptions about names.

At the start of the school year she will have to wait for them to call whatever their approximation is and then teach the teacher the correct pronunciation.  Any time she has an appointment, she'll have to listen for anything approximating her name, and then verify that it's actually her name being called.

Not only will it be mispronounced, it will be mispelled.  I can't count the number of times my medical records were lost because somebody apparently mispelled my name.  With today's computerization, that may be less likely to occur, but people will mispell it in ways that may seem unimaginable.

If you like the name, go ahead and use it.  As an adult, I could have easily changed my name.  My husband (with a conventional name) did change his.  I had gotten used to clarifying my name and it's not that big a deal.  I also expect people to mispronounce it and will answer to anything vaguely similar. I did choose to drop the nickname so that  I only have to teach one confusing name, rather than two.  Family and old friends still use my nickname.[/quote]

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