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How do you pronounce....
Laelia
Linnea
Lynnae
Edited to add: Since my MN is Lynne I'd like to use something like it for a daughter's MN. I pronounce these:Linnea- looks like (lin ee uh) but I guess it's pron. (lin ay uh)
Lynnae- (lin ay)
Lynneah- (lin ee uh)
Laelia- (lay lee uh)*Any other forms you can think of to honor my MN Lynne? Thanks :-)

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Laelia (lay LUH)
Linnea (luh nay uh) I know a girl named this and this is how she pronounces it
Lynnae (luh nay):)
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Laelia = LYE-lee-uh
Linnea = lin-AY-uh... in English, so far as I'm aware :-)I guess LYE-lee-uh because of other Roman/Latin names with the "ae" formation, e.g. Gnaeus = NYE-uss
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Laelia: lah-eh-lya
Linnea: lin-eh-ah
Lynnae: lin-ah-eh
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I know 3 people named Linnea who pronounce it Lin-ee-ah. I've never heard it pronounced any other way. Lin-ay-ah it pretty also, but if you want to go with that pronunication I would spell it with an accent over the 'e' or Linnaea as Miranda mentioned.
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I asked about Linnéa just a couple of weeks agohttp://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=110326&board=genMiranda
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ThanksSince it's pron. (lin ay uh). I'd spell it so it looked like that, possibly:Linaya...any other ways?
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Linnaea's closer to its originSince the name comes from Carolus Linnaeus's surname. The pronunciation's a bit more obvious too, though personally I think Linnaea looks messier than Linnéa.But Linnéa, with the accent, is pretty straightforward imo. After all, most people in English-speaking countries know that é equals the AY sound, due to common names like Désirée and Renée.I really wouldn't spell the name in any way else other than Linnea or Linnaea, personally. Anything else just looks kre8iv and--truthfully--a bit ignorant to me.Miranda
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