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I've been meaning to post this for a while but keep forgetting.
My husband has decided he wants to use Anastasia for a first name. Problem? He wants to pronounce it ahna-stas-ee-a (I suck at writing out pronunications!). We live in the US and North Dakota to boot. She'd have a heck of a time with it but my husband is still insistent. '
Thoughts? Is it possible, or is it too much of a burden?
My husband has decided he wants to use Anastasia for a first name. Problem? He wants to pronounce it ahna-stas-ee-a (I suck at writing out pronunications!). We live in the US and North Dakota to boot. She'd have a heck of a time with it but my husband is still insistent. '
Thoughts? Is it possible, or is it too much of a burden?
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I like your husband's choice of pron. a lot. The people that matter will get used to the pronunciation.
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I love this name and the prn that your husband likes. People will just have to get used to it!
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I love the name Anastasia, and this is also how my husband pronounces it -- based, I think, on how he heard it pronounced in Austria and Germany.
I think it would be fine to use the less-known pronunciation; people who know you well will say it correctly. However, I would only use it if you aren't going to feel annoyed by people who know less well defaulting to the more common Anna-stay-see-ah pronunciation.
Luckily, both pronunciations are quite pretty. :)
I think it would be fine to use the less-known pronunciation; people who know you well will say it correctly. However, I would only use it if you aren't going to feel annoyed by people who know less well defaulting to the more common Anna-stay-see-ah pronunciation.
Luckily, both pronunciations are quite pretty. :)
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Maybe if you spell it more foreignly, like Anastasja or Anastassija or something? That way people will look at it and bells will go off that it's not the normal anna-stay-jah.
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That's funny because whenever I see that name that's how I pronounce it! Not sure why since I speak English, and I even like the English pronunciation better.
I think it would be too burdensome, though. It's going to sound pretentious to insist that your daughter's name is pronounced that way instead of the "normal" way when you're just an average person from here.
I think it would be too burdensome, though. It's going to sound pretentious to insist that your daughter's name is pronounced that way instead of the "normal" way when you're just an average person from here.
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Maybe if you spell it differently, like Anastasiya. That's my preferred spelling, and I pronounce it the same way your husband does. I think people have a hard time pronouncing any name, no matter how popular or easy it looks to pronounce. My sister's name is Rachel and she constantly gets rock-ell and ra-shell.
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I really like Anastasia pronounced this way, actually I really like it however it's pronounced. I think it's possible though I know nothing of North Dakota (I'm Aussie). I know a little girl named Alicia, spelled this way but pronouced Al-iss-y-ah, and it's fine once people know she pronouces it that way.
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I think it's much prettier with the original pronunciation. The other one sounds pretentious.
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I know a young woman names Anastasia.Living in Canada, northern Ontario.And I don't think she's ever had any difficulity. with it.
She's always called her full name, too. No nick-names.
She's always called her full name, too. No nick-names.
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I love this name. I have considered it for my children and even the pronunciation your husband likes.
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I like it and his pronunciation is much prettier than the ana-stay-zha one but I think it would be a difficult name to live with in the US, especially if you aren't Russian.
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I like it, but I agree she will get called ann-a-stay-zha a lot. She'll either have to correct people a lot, or go by Ana or something. I'd be fine with using the other pronunciation too, but it will be a little bit of a burden and she'll probably go by a nickname if you decide to use that pronunciation.
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Agree
I think she'd end up just letting people call her that, since it's probably overwhelmingly how people would say it. I just think your husband would have to be OK with the fact that no matter how he wants to pronounce it, everyone else won't.
This sort of happened to my brother, his name is easier to say in French and he just let people pronounce it in close approximation.
I think she'd end up just letting people call her that, since it's probably overwhelmingly how people would say it. I just think your husband would have to be OK with the fact that no matter how he wants to pronounce it, everyone else won't.
This sort of happened to my brother, his name is easier to say in French and he just let people pronounce it in close approximation.
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And he hates nicknames. :-D
I'd call her Anya, though.
I'd call her Anya, though.
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I like the nn Anya :)
And she probably won't decide not to go by a nickname just because her dad doesn't like nicknames... Kids at school would probably give her a nn too, even if she didn't specifically go by it. I do think the full name is prettier, but she's very likely to go by a nn eventually.
And she probably won't decide not to go by a nickname just because her dad doesn't like nicknames... Kids at school would probably give her a nn too, even if she didn't specifically go by it. I do think the full name is prettier, but she's very likely to go by a nn eventually.
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Maybe, maybe not.
My husband is the only one of his siblings to go by a nickname (Xander from Alexander). The rest go by their full names:
Elizabeth
Damian
Anthony
Christopher
Katherine
:-D
My husband is the only one of his siblings to go by a nickname (Xander from Alexander). The rest go by their full names:
Elizabeth
Damian
Anthony
Christopher
Katherine
:-D
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I think Anastasia (especially his pronunciation) is a little more cumbersome than any of those names...I think it would definitely get shortened at some point.
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Yeah mayble he can call her by her full name but it is likely friends and teachers will use a nickname.
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Many things are possible. Just consider it a chance to educate the public and maybe it'll be easier for you. It's a gorgeous name either way it's prn.
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