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in reply to a message by Lily
I like Aurelia too.
I feel you with the eh=ay annoyance. Honestly, what made people decide that AY was the English equivalent of the european EH sound? The AIR sound of bear, care, stair etc is much closer; if we can pronounce that, we should be able to pronounce EH, goddamnit!
But I think you'd have more problems with people saying loo-CREE-sha. That's how I intuitively want to pronounce it.
I have no concrete opinion on Flavia and Caius.
I like Octavia, myself!
I feel you with the eh=ay annoyance. Honestly, what made people decide that AY was the English equivalent of the european EH sound? The AIR sound of bear, care, stair etc is much closer; if we can pronounce that, we should be able to pronounce EH, goddamnit!
But I think you'd have more problems with people saying loo-CREE-sha. That's how I intuitively want to pronounce it.
I have no concrete opinion on Flavia and Caius.
I like Octavia, myself!
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As a native speaker of language with that sound, I'd say it's more like the EE in deer, fear etc than AIR, but you should be able to pronounce that too ...
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What language do you speak natively? I was thinking of European languages like Spanish and German, with the AIR sound.
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Swedish. (Which is an European language too, but not one you were thinking of I guess. ;))
I've studied both Spanish (2 years) and German (7 years) though, and definitely think it's a more "deery" than "airy" sound (even though they're both more "airy" than Swedish). But describing the sounds of my third and fourth languages in my second language is confusing and perhaps shouldn't be trusted ... :S
I've studied both Spanish (2 years) and German (7 years) though, and definitely think it's a more "deery" than "airy" sound (even though they're both more "airy" than Swedish). But describing the sounds of my third and fourth languages in my second language is confusing and perhaps shouldn't be trusted ... :S
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I agree! It seems to be very common with French names as well. ez-MAY, ren-AY, AY-lo-dee (Esmee, Renee, Elodie).
Oh loo-CREE-sha is even worse. Octavia is nice! It's close to Olivia but less common.
Oh loo-CREE-sha is even worse. Octavia is nice! It's close to Olivia but less common.
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