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How do YOU pronounce Mariam?
I'm quite fond of the name Mariam, but I cannot decide how to pronounce it. I switch between MAR-ee-um and MAIR-ee-um. Is there a "correct" pronunciation? I would also like to see how people pronounce it on sight, just to know what's most practical.Thank you!
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MAIR-ee-um.
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I'd say MAR-ee-um, but it's used quite often by Muslim people around where I live, and they prononce it mar-ee-AM.
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I say MARE-ee-um, and that's how I prefer it. I really love Mariam, too. :)Array

Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
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MAH-ree-um
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I've only ever heard it pro. MAIR-ee-um... it's quite close to one of my fave girl names - Marian / Marion, which I say MAIR-ee-uhn, like Maid Marion from Robin Hood :)
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
"Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"

- 'Home', Michael Buble
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MAIR-ee-um...
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Same.

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tritto
Budgerigars, ceiling fans, the Times of India are all part of the luggage I brought into the world... Blue Jesus leaked into me; and Mary's desperation, and Joseph's revolutionary wildness, and the flightiness of Alice Pereira... all these maed me, too.
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dittoand I really like this name, as well as Miriam, Marian and Mariah.
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