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Well, edamame, hermione, Pago Pago, penelope are all pronounced exactly the way they're spelled. You do realize that the Roman alphabet uses one letter for more than one sound, don't you?
I don't know....I always thought it was pronounced "pen-a-lope" since the "e" is usually silent. Then I heard it spoken. Same with Hermione---not easy to figure out. I had to look up "Siobhan" and it seems to be "shah-vaughn"....
I once worked with someone named Stephaughnn. Good man and good worker. But it seems like his parents picked out the most unphonetic spelling they could think of, when they named him. That's 5 superfluous letters, if you think about it, with "Stefan" being more common.
I once worked with someone named Stephaughnn. Good man and good worker. But it seems like his parents picked out the most unphonetic spelling they could think of, when they named him. That's 5 superfluous letters, if you think about it, with "Stefan" being more common.
Interesting, isn't it? Parents want their child to be special, different, respected? Give the kid a name people can't pronounce or spell and then get indignant when people pronounce or spell it wrong...and maybe the kid feels dissed, run over, separated from the rest.
Word I pronounced wrong: chimera. It's ky mair ah, not shim mer ah. I had read it, but never heard it, so I guessed.
Karen Keegan was one...very interesting story.
Karen Keegan from Boston, MA, USA, was hoping that one of her three sons might be a match for a kidney transplant, after her first transplant failed. Initial tests indicated that the three men are brothers, but that two of them are not her sons. “At the time, the referring nephrologist reported that she had excluded Keegan as the mother of two of her kids, and how could that be?
I got my first vaccine today at a state megasite in Gloucester County.
When I was little, I thought it was pronounced GLOU-cester.
When I grew up, I understood it to be pronounced GLOU-ster.
Today I chatted with the man on line ahead of me, and I mentioned that I had driven 90 minutes from another part of the state, and he said he was from Glawster.
In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, there is the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. When you say that word, you are supposed to pronounce it as though you were saying "Wooster".
Question: If they wanted a city to be pronounced so as to sound like "Wooster", why didn't they just simply name it "Wooster" (instead of "Worcester")????
There are males that were given the first name of "Stephen" . . . yet all the time in their life, their name is pronounced by everyone as "Steven". Perplexing!
Yet a female named "Stephanie" will have her name pronounced just like it phonetically reads (i.e., as "Steh-fa-nee') . . . so why doesn't everyone pronounce the male name "Stephen" just like it phonetically reads (i.e., pronouncing it as "Steh-fen")? Perplexing?
As an analogy: Like if my given first name is "Bill" but everyone pronounces it as "Billy-Bob". Why do that? If I am given the first name of "Billy-Bob"", then spell and pronounce it as "Billy-Bob" (not as simply "Bill"). Like duh!!!
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