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The pronunciation really wasn't the issue, it was the stress. Stressing the first syllable sounds just really off to me because I am more familiar with Nicole. And frankly stressed like that in Polish it kept sounding masculine to me, which is why when I kept hearing "is Nikol taking her break?" It was not registering as a name at all. I kept trying to figure out roles at my job that could possibly get abbreviated to Nik-Ol or maybe Ni-Kol and I was coming up empty xD

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I'm sure the name can be lovely in other contexts. I'm just personally associating it with this passing moment of frustration.