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in reply to a message by Elinor
Equally, I've never heard an American say Tan-yah.
Occasionally, it does happen. My coworker this past spring was the coolest lady of a mature age in just about the history of ever, and she was telling me once about her daughter's name.
She and her husband had agreed to call the baby Tanya, but she wanted to spell it Tawnya; otherwise, she told him, people would call the baby TAN-yah, and she wanted her to be TAWN-yah. Her husband insisted that no, no one would mispronounce the baby's name, and eventually won the argument--and so the girl was named Tanya. And after they'd sent out the birth announcements, one of her husband's relatives called them up to congratulate them on the birth of baby TAN-yah, and she was steaming mad. :D
This was some years ago, however, and it's quite possible that now that the name Tanya is better known, people saying TAN-yah in the United States would be far rarer.
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Occasionally, it does happen. My coworker this past spring was the coolest lady of a mature age in just about the history of ever, and she was telling me once about her daughter's name.
She and her husband had agreed to call the baby Tanya, but she wanted to spell it Tawnya; otherwise, she told him, people would call the baby TAN-yah, and she wanted her to be TAWN-yah. Her husband insisted that no, no one would mispronounce the baby's name, and eventually won the argument--and so the girl was named Tanya. And after they'd sent out the birth announcements, one of her husband's relatives called them up to congratulate them on the birth of baby TAN-yah, and she was steaming mad. :D
This was some years ago, however, and it's quite possible that now that the name Tanya is better known, people saying TAN-yah in the United States would be far rarer.
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