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in reply to a message by Thara
If people see "th" they're first instinct won't be to pronounce a hard "t". Still, after you've told your teachers, they should catch on. It's still early in the school year though.
The problem with adding new names is that many are simply made up by parents, so they have no meaning or history. Your name could probably be considered an alternate spelling of Tara. There may be fewer than a hundred Tharas in the country, if not far fewer.
I worked at a daycare. A parent chewed me out once for mispronouncing her child's name for the first few weeks. The child's name was spelled Chynque. I asked her how she pronounced it. This was a four year old, 1st time in daycare and she was too shy or confused to answer. So I prodded her a little, "Does your mommy call you "SHAN-qwa" or "SHIN-qwa?" She said her mother called her "SHAN". So that's what I called her. Occasionally I would call her SHAN-qwa. One day her mother comes to pick her up early. I wake her up from her nap, saying what I thought was her full first name. Her mother(rather rudely and loudly in a room full of sleeping four-year olds) informs me her daughter's name is shan-qwa-NEEK. I apologized for the mistake and asked her if I had it spelled correctly on the roll. It was, spelled Chynque. I bit my tongue and said goodbye.
The problem with adding new names is that many are simply made up by parents, so they have no meaning or history. Your name could probably be considered an alternate spelling of Tara. There may be fewer than a hundred Tharas in the country, if not far fewer.
I worked at a daycare. A parent chewed me out once for mispronouncing her child's name for the first few weeks. The child's name was spelled Chynque. I asked her how she pronounced it. This was a four year old, 1st time in daycare and she was too shy or confused to answer. So I prodded her a little, "Does your mommy call you "SHAN-qwa" or "SHIN-qwa?" She said her mother called her "SHAN". So that's what I called her. Occasionally I would call her SHAN-qwa. One day her mother comes to pick her up early. I wake her up from her nap, saying what I thought was her full first name. Her mother(rather rudely and loudly in a room full of sleeping four-year olds) informs me her daughter's name is shan-qwa-NEEK. I apologized for the mistake and asked her if I had it spelled correctly on the roll. It was, spelled Chynque. I bit my tongue and said goodbye.
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