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I never can warm to any name beginning Mal- because I strongly associate "mal" with "bad."

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I pronounce it MAL-uh-kai, and I'm from the U.S.

I have met someone named Malachi, it's a nice, strong name.
I pronounce it mal-A-KYE.

I think of it as MAlakai, but an Irish friend says maLACKee.

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The meaning is good, but mal + ache is like a bad pain. Also, too likely to signal membership of a religion not my own.

I think it sounds traditional, sweet, and a tad trendy (reminds me of Asher, Kai, Malcolm) in the US.

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I say Mal-ə-kai.

This message was edited 12/4/2018, 10:37 PM

I pronounce it Mal-a-ky. But that could easily be wrong.
I probably wouldn't use it, but some might, Old Testament names are used now and the (I think it's Old Testament)?

When I was in high school, in English class, we read "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder. Then we were broken up in groups and had to do some kind of project about it. My group chose to dramatize a scene. There is a character named Malachi in "The Matchmaker" who featured in the scene, and none of us had seen this name before, so we naturally didn't know how to pronounce it. Keep in mind this was before the internet, when it wasn't all that easy to look up something like that.

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We said, "me-LATCH-ee." So we had a student teacher that semester who took herself way too seriously. She watched our little skit with a bitchy look on her face, and when it was over all she had to say, in a tone which made it clear that she thought us the worst kind of imbeciles, was that the name is pronounced "MAL-e-kie"

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So whenever I hear the name all I can think of is that incident and so the name is somewhat comical to me.

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Oh, so ever since then, I've pronounced it MAL-e-kie.

In the US most people would pronounce it Mal-ah-kai. If I wanted -khee, I'd spell it Malachy. I'm very surprised to see that Malachy isn't related to Malachi actually.

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I like it. The meaning is nice and I think it has a nice sound. I like similar Mordecai a little more.