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Help[Opinions] Re: Rohan
in reply to a message by SJayne
5. Would be better if it were clearer how to say it.
Sure it's usable. People are using it quite a lot.
I like Rowan for a boy. RO-wun
Ronan is okay, but the prn is stilted and ambiguous for me too: RAHN-ahn, ahn rhyme don/fawn/wan (they're the same in my accent. If you're Australian or British, you might rhyme it with barn?); RO-nahn, or RO-nun. None seems quite right... reminds me of "run on."
Rohan is RO-hahn to me, mostly - RO rhyme low. It would probably become RO-hun if I said it enough. I definitely don't stress the second syllable. I think that would sound ridiculous. RO-han (han like hand) would be okay, learnable, sayable for me. But any "new" name with unstressed vowels that aren't schwa sounds, sounds stilted to me, in my accent. Although it might sound nice in your accent.
Yes I do think the pronunciation would be a burden. However I think there are other names with as bad a problem, that are common regardless. Like Raphael and Aaliyah and Reagan and Isaiah. So, whatever.
Oddly, Rohan is listed as female in the database! I've never thought it was feminine but now that I think of it, I think it seems more easily used for females than Rowan.
- mirfak
Sure it's usable. People are using it quite a lot.
I like Rowan for a boy. RO-wun
Ronan is okay, but the prn is stilted and ambiguous for me too: RAHN-ahn, ahn rhyme don/fawn/wan (they're the same in my accent. If you're Australian or British, you might rhyme it with barn?); RO-nahn, or RO-nun. None seems quite right... reminds me of "run on."
Rohan is RO-hahn to me, mostly - RO rhyme low. It would probably become RO-hun if I said it enough. I definitely don't stress the second syllable. I think that would sound ridiculous. RO-han (han like hand) would be okay, learnable, sayable for me. But any "new" name with unstressed vowels that aren't schwa sounds, sounds stilted to me, in my accent. Although it might sound nice in your accent.
Yes I do think the pronunciation would be a burden. However I think there are other names with as bad a problem, that are common regardless. Like Raphael and Aaliyah and Reagan and Isaiah. So, whatever.
Oddly, Rohan is listed as female in the database! I've never thought it was feminine but now that I think of it, I think it seems more easily used for females than Rowan.
- mirfak
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