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Salome = sah-loh-meh to me.
The original Hebrew form would be Shlomit.

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~~ Claire ~~

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My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
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My / are Aglaia and July

Biblical pronounciation

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Just wanted to point out that in the original biblical text in Greek, Salome is accented in the second syllable - sa-LOH-mee.

The original English pronunciation of this name was as this site says, but there have been many Americans who used the two-syllable "sa-LOAM" pronunciation during the 19th century, just as it used to be more common in the USA for Zoe to be rhymed with "toe" than with "Joey". SAL-oh-may was originally the French or German pronunciation (and the spelling is Salomé in French). Believe it or not, Wilde originally wrote this play in French, not English, and most of his sources were French or German, so it's no surprise that he preferred SA-lo-may as the pronunciation.

The Oscar Wilde character is SAL o may. I would assume that he would have used an educated English (or of course Irish!) pronunciation that was prevalent at the time ... but these things can change, and the version I'm used to in South Africa is sa LO mee - usually used by speakers of Afrikaans. A European rather than an English sound.

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Your boyfriend is certainly mistaken! Just as Chloe doesn't rhyme with Joe, so the -e is sounded in Salome.