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What I have a hard time accepting is that vowels in the end of names are pronounced the same in (America?) English. Like Jordan, Jorden, Jordyn, Jordin would be pronounced the same but instinctivley I would pronounce those four spellings in four different ways. Also Olivia and Alivia as two different spellings of the same name make NO sense what so ever to me. I don't understand how they can be pronounced the same. And when people say they pronounce Ellen and Elin the same I was just really confused because they are two very different names to me. I love Ellen but despise Elin.

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There are quite a few names that I think sound much better in English than Swedish like Paul and Genevieve but there are also many names I don't like with an English pronounciation; Astrid, Sebastian, Sirius and French names with É (like Esmé) which are pronounced like -ay and not -eh.