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Re: Rosalind
by Bear
9/11/2013, 5:57 PM
in reply to a message by Barbie
For what it's worth, I'm from the west coast of the U.S. I say, "RAHZ-uh-lind." Rosalind is lovely without trying too hard. She's effortlessly elegant. :-)
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- queenv
9/11/2013, 6:05 PM
When I first met my husband, Jimmy Carter was President and my husband had a joke that he loved to tell and the joke started with whomever was First Lady at the time walking into a bar. So at the time the First Lady was Rosalynn Carter and he persisted in calling her "RAHZ-uh-lin" Carter, close to the way you pronounce Rosalind, just without the final D. Every time I told him that it was "ROZ-a-lin" with a long O and my sister told him the same thing when he told her the joke, and he persisted in ignoring that and continued to pronounce it the same way. But he did that with everything. It was always a waste of time to correct him in pronunciation.
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- Barbie   +3
9/11/2013, 5:59 PM
This is the way I prefer to pronounce it. Seems like most people say ROZ-uh-lind, though.
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- Rose-Berry
9/14/2013, 7:14 AM
To me in Britain (and maybe the other British posters who replied below) ROZ-uh-lind is how I would spell out the pronunciation where the first syllable sounds like the name Ros / Roz (so RAHZ-uh-lind to an American?). I've only ever heard it this way, never as ROZE-uh-lind.
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- Calla (guest)   +1
9/11/2013, 6:39 PM
Oh...Hm. Perhaps I should amend my answer. I say Rosalind like RAHZ-uh-lind but for some reason I thought that would be phonetically ROZ-uh-lind. Probably because I like the nn Roz and that's pronounced RAHZ.
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- Barbie
9/11/2013, 7:46 PM
I like the nn Roz, as well.
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