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Helppet peeve!!!
in reply to a message by ADT
Okay, forgive me in advance...
i HATE HATE HATE it when people pronounce Naomi like nie-O-mee. the "a" is first! it's nay-O-mee! (or more technically correct, nah-0-mee, but in English it becomes an ay sound) and even if you were to make a dipthong out of the "ao" like in some words (which wouldn't really be the case for a name of this origin, but for argument's sake) then it would be NOW-mee. STILL NOT NIE-O-MEE!
i think so many people mispronounce it as nie-O-mee because the eye inverts it and puts the i after the N, because it stands out at the end of the name. and sadly, because people kept doing this, it became an "alternate" pronunciation instead of an incorrect one, which i (obviously haha) still consider it.
i HATE HATE HATE it when people pronounce Naomi like nie-O-mee. the "a" is first! it's nay-O-mee! (or more technically correct, nah-0-mee, but in English it becomes an ay sound) and even if you were to make a dipthong out of the "ao" like in some words (which wouldn't really be the case for a name of this origin, but for argument's sake) then it would be NOW-mee. STILL NOT NIE-O-MEE!
i think so many people mispronounce it as nie-O-mee because the eye inverts it and puts the i after the N, because it stands out at the end of the name. and sadly, because people kept doing this, it became an "alternate" pronunciation instead of an incorrect one, which i (obviously haha) still consider it.
This message was edited 2/5/2014, 7:23 PM
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