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Keren sounds totally different from how we (Kiwis) say Karen, but very similar to pronunciations of Karen that I've heard from US English speakers. I've never heard Madison pronounced like anything approaching Medicine, but then my perception of Kiwi vowels is probably different to a US english speaker (the other night at work I gave some American customers some feedback forms and they looked at me blankly - I had to say feedback a couple more times before it made sense to them lol). I can imagine someone with a very strong South African accent pronouncing Madison that way.

This message was edited 3/1/2008, 2:52 PM