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HelpRe: Where are you from and how do you pronounce Selene? (nt)
in reply to a message by Dracotorix
suh-LEE-nee. I’m from the UK.
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This is the pronunciation I kind of want to avoid because the "ee"s sound whiny to me. And it rhymes with weenie. Is that the only pronunciation you hear in the UK?
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I would never have assumed that this would be pronounced with three syllables in an English speaking country. I'm surprised. I know in Italian it has three syllables but more like seh-LEH-neh (no -ee sound, as far as I'm aware, I hope I remember this correctly!). But I never would have guessed seh-LEE-nee and I'm not fond of it, too much like Salami. In any case, I think it's easily corrected.
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