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I love the name Alyosha, but think it's pretty hard to get the Russian pronunciation correct in English -- it's pretty easy to add a syllable, making it Alley-osha rather than Al-yosha, which kind of puts me off the name. Not to mention the inevitable misspellings as Aloysha.

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Alyosha sounds nice with siblings named Abraham and Matthias, but I'd have trouble giving a diminutive name to the youngest son. I really kind of yearn for Alexei in its place, with Alyosha as a family nickname.