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by Urania (guest)

7/23/2005, 12:05 PM

in reply to a message by Brogan

There is a senior at my school named Linnea and it's pronounced Lynn-Ay.

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- Ylva

7/23/2005, 2:09 PM

Not the correct Swedish pronounciation

Linnéa is a Swedish name. But if it gets more popular in USA, people will probably use an Anglicized (butchered) pronounciation. As we do with English names when they get popular in Sweden. William is pronouced as Vill-yum here.

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