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in reply to a message by Anita
I was at school with a girl called Zephne - pronounced like Daphne but with a Ze instead of a Da. But where she got it from I don't know. If anyone's got a clue, I'd be interested.
As foryour question, it might be useful to think of possible German names - the single S in German is pronounced like the English Z (and the German Z like a TS), so people who didn't know German and heard a Z sound might quite innocently give it an English Z spelling when they wrote it down and confuse the rest of us decades later. Something like Josephine, perhaps?
As foryour question, it might be useful to think of possible German names - the single S in German is pronounced like the English Z (and the German Z like a TS), so people who didn't know German and heard a Z sound might quite innocently give it an English Z spelling when they wrote it down and confuse the rest of us decades later. Something like Josephine, perhaps?
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