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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a beautiful name. I'm a teacher and have learned to pronounce many names, including Indian names with many letters: Shinidi, Abdullazi, etc. I had an Eoin one year too. It'll get butchered at times but once she introduces herself, people will get it. [/quote] Looking at Abdullazi takes me about a half second to figure out how to pronounce, maybe butchering which syllable to accent. Saorise is NOT pronounced phonetically in our language. Unless you're Irish, or using Grandma's name, it seems so pretentious to use a name that most Americans won't be able to read. One other thing. It's hard enough explaining to my preschooler that the 'F' sound in his last name is not an F, but a ph. I want to just laugh at the though of trying to explain to a child, who is so earnestly trying to learn their letters, that NONE of the letters in her name sound remotely like the letter sounds she's learned, after the S. [/quote]
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