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Help[Opinions] Re: How would you pronounce these names?
in reply to a message by coldplayer9
Jacqueline - JACK-uh-LEEN / JACK-uh-LYN
Genevieve - JEN-uh-veev
Ephraim - EE-frame or EF-frame (I've never heard this pronounced so I'm guessing)
Tamara - Tuh-MAR-uh
Anastasia - AN-uh-STAYS-ee-a
Joel - Jole or Jo-ul
Madeline - MAD-uh-lyn
Andrea - AN-dree-uh ( I know some people who say it like An-DRAY-uh.
Renee - REN-ay or if it's on an older English person Ree-nee.
Serena - Suh-REE-na.
The uh sound is basically a schwa sound but I don't know how to do that on the computer. Capital letters is where the stress is. I'm in England. I think the only name we say really differently to America would be Anastasia.
Genevieve - JEN-uh-veev
Ephraim - EE-frame or EF-frame (I've never heard this pronounced so I'm guessing)
Tamara - Tuh-MAR-uh
Anastasia - AN-uh-STAYS-ee-a
Joel - Jole or Jo-ul
Madeline - MAD-uh-lyn
Andrea - AN-dree-uh ( I know some people who say it like An-DRAY-uh.
Renee - REN-ay or if it's on an older English person Ree-nee.
Serena - Suh-REE-na.
The uh sound is basically a schwa sound but I don't know how to do that on the computer. Capital letters is where the stress is. I'm in England. I think the only name we say really differently to America would be Anastasia.
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Yes, it's pretty much identical here, but I'm finding that many Americans say TAM-er-a instead of ta-MAH-ra, which is how I pronounce it.
Here in NYC Anastasia is pronounced a whole bunch of different ways due to each immigrant population having their own pronunciation, but the one that is most natural to me is anna-STAY-sjuh.
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