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Re: Obituaries
by Bear
7/11/2010, 2:30 PM
in reply to a message by Sofia
Ksenija is I assume a variant of Xenia? I love it when the "k" sound is pronounced at the beginning like that. And how do you pronounce Stefanija, "steh-FAH-nee-uh" or "steh-feh-NEE-uh" or other?
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- Sofia   +2
7/11/2010, 2:49 PM
In this case Stefanija is spelled Štefanija and pronounced 'SHTEH-fah-nee-yah'. Š = sh in Croatian. And yes, Ksenija is a variant of Xenia, since Croatian alphabet doesn't have the letter X.

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- Bear   +1
7/11/2010, 4:48 PM
Ah. A third way I hadn't even imagined. Fun. :-)There can't be too many name beginning with a "ks-" sound for me.
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- Sofia
7/11/2010, 6:05 PM
Not many begin with ks (Ksenija, Ksavijer, Ksilena, etc.)), but all others that have x in English are spelled with ks (Aleksandar, Maksim, Maks, etc.)
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