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Re: Joanna and Johanna
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I much prefer the German pronunciation too - you have a nice name. :) But the Joanna/Joe-hannah pronunciation was very common here once, and probably the most usual way of pronouncing the name in English, although I should imagine it's very rare now.
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Thank you, I'm very happy with my name :) You're probably right, pronouncing it the German way would be very unusual in an English-speaking country and might be considered weird. My preference of the pronunciation yo-HAHN-nah is likely to be influenced by habit ;)

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