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in reply to a message by New_Chloe
It is pretty, and I once taught a very nice one; pretty and bright and pleasant.
Possible snag: pronunciation. She was a tolerant child and answered to just about anything, but in the family she was sa-BEE-na with the a syllables being, effectively, neutral vowels. Some of my colleagues used to show off or try to be hypercorrect, and pronounced it zah-BEE-nah, which is authentic in the wider world but not in that particular girl's life.
Possible snag: pronunciation. She was a tolerant child and answered to just about anything, but in the family she was sa-BEE-na with the a syllables being, effectively, neutral vowels. Some of my colleagues used to show off or try to be hypercorrect, and pronounced it zah-BEE-nah, which is authentic in the wider world but not in that particular girl's life.
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