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oh, loads! Mostly ancient Greek names (of course) and Irish names. There's this YA book series called Sweep and a lot of the characters in it have Irish names (it's about witches, most of whom are Irish) and while the characters sometimes explained to other characters how to pronounce their names, sometimes they didn't... which led to some confusion for a 14 y.o. :-) Although I was lucky that there were some Irish kids in my school and so I was able to ask them how to pronounce some names, since they had equally strangely spelled names haha

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I also used to pronounce Lyra (which is one of my top 5 fav girl names) as leer-ah instead of lye-rah... I used to hate the latter but now it's how I say it naturally and I've come to love it just as much as leer-ah.

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And then, of course, there were all the names from when I was a kid that I had no idea how to say.

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For the most part, though, I'm quite good at sounding words out how they're supposed to be. This site has definitely helped, as has my inherent interest in linguistics and languages.