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Re: What name is becoming popular that you don’t care for?
Ha, I've never seen this one. Not that I'm defending it, but interestingly when we say "dream" or anything starting with dr-, we are mostly saying a soft j, like jream. Same with words that start with tr-, we really end up saying a chr- (tree becomes chree, sort of). I had never really thought about this until I took a phonetics class.In some accents it's probably more pronounced than others, which is why it probably makes some sense to whoever invented this name.

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