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Help[Opinions] Pronouncing it differently
So I think I'll already know the general concensus on this one, but is it totally wrong to pronounce a name your own way, even if that's not the original way?
I don't really see a problem with it myself, but I know there are mixed feelings about it on here.
For example- Cassia. It's pronounced "ca-SHA", but I know the name is sometimes used and pronounced exactly the way it looks (like Cassie with an a, basically). In my opinion, the latter is a considerably more attractive sound- but does the fact that it "looses it's history" by using a different sound put it on the same level as Ashlynn and Nevaeh?
I'm mainly asking because one of my favorites at the moment is Johanna- not pronounced as "yo-HAN-na" or even like Joanna, but the way Bob Dylan sings it in "Visions of Johanna"; "jo-HANNAH"... but I'd still like to hear feelings on the issue as a whole.
I don't really see a problem with it myself, but I know there are mixed feelings about it on here.
For example- Cassia. It's pronounced "ca-SHA", but I know the name is sometimes used and pronounced exactly the way it looks (like Cassie with an a, basically). In my opinion, the latter is a considerably more attractive sound- but does the fact that it "looses it's history" by using a different sound put it on the same level as Ashlynn and Nevaeh?
I'm mainly asking because one of my favorites at the moment is Johanna- not pronounced as "yo-HAN-na" or even like Joanna, but the way Bob Dylan sings it in "Visions of Johanna"; "jo-HANNAH"... but I'd still like to hear feelings on the issue as a whole.
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