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in reply to a message by Array
Sorry to be blunt, but it seems like for an American English speaker, it'd come out too often sounding a lot like Scooby-Doo saying Alexandra. Ruh-roh. That's just what the look of it reminds me of. Even the Rou-ks sound would, IMO, be too awkward for speakers such as myself.
Rusandra appears, according to a Google search, to be an alternate form somewhere. I like that better - prn roo SAHN dra. May be that's how Ruxandra is pronounced too? I don't know.
I hope you don't mind, I've just made a note on my own list of Russandra (I'm pronouncing it roo-SAN-dra), since that comes up on Google as a fantasy character name =D
No middles coming to mind at the moment...
- mirfak
Rusandra appears, according to a Google search, to be an alternate form somewhere. I like that better - prn roo SAHN dra. May be that's how Ruxandra is pronounced too? I don't know.
I hope you don't mind, I've just made a note on my own list of Russandra (I'm pronouncing it roo-SAN-dra), since that comes up on Google as a fantasy character name =D
No middles coming to mind at the moment...
- mirfak
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Bluntness is never something to be sorry about. ...At least, it's not in this case, heh. ;)
Lol--mentioning Scooby Doo is...interesting. My youngest sister is a Ruby (as though there's anyone here who doesn't yet know that), and she's grown up being called Ruby-dooby-doo (and Ruby-Doo for short, of course). Helps that it was her favourite show when she was bitsy, of course--but I'm afraid saying Scooby-Doo isn't quite enough to put me off. Scrappy-Doo, maybe.
roo-SAHN-drah appeals to me as much as rooks-AHN-drah. I have to admit that part of it is simply a desire to find an alternative to Cassandra; much as I absolutely love it, I love it pronunced cah-SAHN-dra (not cah-SAN-dra or icky-icky cah-SAWN-dra) and I'm afraid that'd be too difficult to convince people to do.
Hm. I've got to think on this--and try and find a definite pronunciation of the name, heh. Thanks, mirfak. :)
Array
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Less like a wall--
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Lol--mentioning Scooby Doo is...interesting. My youngest sister is a Ruby (as though there's anyone here who doesn't yet know that), and she's grown up being called Ruby-dooby-doo (and Ruby-Doo for short, of course). Helps that it was her favourite show when she was bitsy, of course--but I'm afraid saying Scooby-Doo isn't quite enough to put me off. Scrappy-Doo, maybe.
roo-SAHN-drah appeals to me as much as rooks-AHN-drah. I have to admit that part of it is simply a desire to find an alternative to Cassandra; much as I absolutely love it, I love it pronunced cah-SAHN-dra (not cah-SAN-dra or icky-icky cah-SAWN-dra) and I'm afraid that'd be too difficult to convince people to do.
Hm. I've got to think on this--and try and find a definite pronunciation of the name, heh. Thanks, mirfak. :)
Array
I want to be be more like a river--
Less like a wall--
Not trying to hold back these feelings at all.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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According to this site: http://ttle.club.fr/tennis/FAlphNen.html (which mentions the pronunciation for a tennis player named Ruxandra Dragomir, it is pronounced rroo-ksahn-drrah. Rolling the R's, ah as in Car or Casa, and oo as in Boot (according their guide).
With my accent I tend to say rux-ahn-dra though. Speaking of my accent, I hear no difference between cah-SAHN-dra and cah-SAWN-dra, so I'm not sure what you mean by that.
With my accent I tend to say rux-ahn-dra though. Speaking of my accent, I hear no difference between cah-SAHN-dra and cah-SAWN-dra, so I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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