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Re: How would you pronounce..

by CN

9/10/2017, 5:31 AM

Jo+Hanna. Ignoring the H is kind of weird. If you want the Joanna pronunciation you should spell it without the H.

Just curious since several people said they pronounce Johanna and Joanna the same. How do you pronounce Johan?

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but she wants to be sure 'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings

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- Dracotorix

9/11/2017, 10:51 AM

I'd pronoucne Johan as "yo-han" or "yo-an", but Johanna with the j the way it usually is in English.

- Caprice +5

9/10/2017, 12:11 PM

Agree. I think it sounds strange when they sing "I feel you, Jo-ANNA" in Sweeney Todd, although her name is Johanna. Johanna is jo-HANNA for me. Joanna is a different name.

- Dracotorix +4

9/11/2017, 10:53 AM

Related question

So there's some "jo-anna" vs. "jo-hannah" going on, but what about "jo-hannah" vs. "jo-hana"? For some reason, if I say the h, I also tend to ignore the second n. And if I ignore the h I don't ignore the second n. Is that just me?

ETA: should have been a reply to the OP

This message was edited 9/11/2017, 11:00 AM

- mirfak

9/13/2017, 11:15 AM

I'm the same as you. If the H is heard, then to me, it can't be pronounced like Anna.
It's either prn like Joanna, or it's Jo-HAH-na. It could still be pronounced Jo-AH-na.

- queenv +2

9/11/2017, 10:55 AM

This question puzzles me. A double N vs a single N presents no pronunciation difference to me.

- Dracotorix +1

9/11/2017, 10:59 AM

I was thinking like Ana vs. Anna

- queenv

9/11/2017, 11:55 AM

Oh. No, I pronounce it the same whether with one N or two.

- Llewella (penguiny7)

9/10/2017, 12:04 PM

Agree

I never knew one may skip the H until being on this site. I think it's weird, just spell it Joanna.

- M.Catalina

9/10/2017, 9:02 AM

Yo-hahn. Mostly because Joanna/Johanna are common English names to have, and I'd presume a Johan would be Germanic.

- Myosotis

9/10/2017, 6:37 AM

I say Yo-han. It's not commonly used in English speaking countries, so I'd be inclined to use Yo and say the H, as I'm aware it's said elsewhere.

I've never actually heard Jo-hanna, so I always assumed the H just wasn't said in English. And the only place I can recall hearing Johanna (and knowing that was the spelling) did say it as Jo-anna, so I never had reason to question it. That is, until I was deciding between the two names. The value of research haha.

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