How do you pronounce the name 'Herriot'?
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1) Hair-ee-auht\n2) Er-ee-auht\n3) Hair-oh
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Depends on how you pronounce the name.\n\nI see the English version of the name may be pronounced four different ways:\n\n(a)  a-LIS-a \n(b)  a-LIS-ya\n(c)  a-LISH-a \n(d)  a-LEE-sha\n\nhttp://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=alicia&submit=Go\n\nMy bet is it's one of the last two (the most common, I believe).  So:\n\nIf you pronounce it "a-LEE-sha" (long i), it rhymes with:\n Phoenicia, paramecia\n\nIf you say "a-LISH-a " (short i), it rhymes with \nMorticia, milita, comitia, adventitia\n\nFor a-LIS-a:\nmantissa, abscissa, crissa, vibrissa\n\nBeyond that you might need to be a bit more informal.  For instance  \nfor (b)."I'll miss ya" or "..kiss ya"
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Te'el: Teh-el\nT'el: T.el\n\nI would feel fine calling out that name, whether I say it correctly or not isn't my problem. I constantly have my name mispronounced and misspelled even AFTER the hurricane came. (It's Katrina.)
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sounds like a guy's name\nis it pernounced JERVICE or GERVICE??\nso confusing
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REGINALD  \nGender: Male \nOrigin: English \nMeaning: King
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I love the name Lance as in Sir Lancelot.\nI can give you a few too.\nLincoln\nLane\nLandon\nLynx\nLevi\nLake\nLogan\nLondon
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It's a name, Henry Higgins, from the movie "My Fair Lady".  She was Cockney (an area of England) and her accent reflected that, with the "H's" silent.
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if hre is mmuslim call him aymen.if he is cristian call him jackie.
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ee nes with the accent on the first syllable
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After thinking it over, my answer is...DWAIN!  Ha-ha!  That is cute.  Thanks for the clue!
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Yes it is from half penny, I think you should spell it like this: 'alfpeth cos you say "aypeny" not half penny don't ya?
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Ryvre will constantly be mispronounced as Ryvere.  As in Paul Revere.  Just warning ya.  That's the trouble with 'unique' names.  No one will be able to spell them or say them.  How frustrating for a child.
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I would pronounce it...ahhh dreeena...\nNot spelling you understand...
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Ptrodactyl...\n\ni totally pronounced it as Petro-dack-tel.\n\nI later learned it was tero-dack-tel..\n\nI honestly always thought the ptrodactyl was spelt with a t.. but apparently i was wrong.
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I am from Sarfend and our Essex twang says Sarfend. Posh people from Sarfend say that they come from a region of Sarfend called Thorpe Bay and they pronounce it as Southend as do many outsiders.\n\nBy the way - its not soccer. Its football
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"comf'terbul" has a perfectly logical explanation and is an acceptable pronunciation (as is "comf'tebul")\n\nAnd why don't pronounce it "the way it's written"?  Because language simply doesn't always work that way.  And so I don't say "I-run" for "iron"; and the "t" that I pronounce in "soft" I do NOT pronounce in the form "soften" (even though it is written that way and even COMES from "soft").\n\n--------------------\n\nThis sort of re-ordering of the sounds of a word --called "METATHESIS"--  is very common in language.  It may come about by confusion, but often it happens simply because the expected form is more difficult to pronounce.    In some cases the change is considered ignorant or at least non-standard, in other instances it is the (or a) ACCEPTED pronounciation.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_(linguistics)\n\n\nExamples in English:\n1) incorrect/nonstandard:\n  "nuclear" -- pronounced as "nucular" (by educated people as well... including THREE Presidents in recent times --not just GW but Carter & Eisenhower)\n  "ax" for "ask"  (though actually BOTH forms are found in the Middle English of Chaucer)\n\n2) correct:\n  "iron" -- pronounced "i-urn"  In fact, does ANYONE say "i-ron"?  On the other hand, we DO keep the sounds in their written order in the suffixed form "ironic".  (We do the same with "irony", though it's acceptable, or at least permitted, to say "i-urnee" --as we do with "ironing".   Thus, the most important factor seems to be where the word is ACCENTED.)\n\n3) debated but probably correct\nThe example of "iron" vs. "ironic" --that is, changing the pronounciation based on where the accent falls (often related to whether there is a suffix or not)--  helps explain why we SAY "comfort"  but "comfturble".    There are two conflicting "laws" at work here. In our spelling, we do not change the base when we add the suffix "able".   But the change in the PHONOLOGY (sound pattern) pushes us to SAY the word in a way that is much easier to pronounce.  \n\nHere's how it happens.  Note that the syllable in question --"fort"--  has a slight accent in "comfort" but almost NO accent when we add the "able" suffix.  In English, adding suffixes frequently shifts or reduces accent of certain syllables.  When a syllable loses accent, the vowel typically is shortened; in an UN-accented syllable it may end up as the 'swallowed', unaccented "schwa" sound, or even completely disappear.  But this leaves us with the unaccented combination "frt" which is more difficult or at least less natural to pronounce.    The natural solution is to simplify the pronounciation, either by skipping the "r" sound (which leads some to say "comf'-tubly") or to reverse sounds ("metathesis") and say "comf'turbly".\n\n------------------\n\n(Frankly, I suspect the pronunciation "com-four-tab-ly" is  a hypercorrection.   Some people say it that way BECAUSE of the spelling, whereas the SPOKEN language long ago changed the pronounciation.  But spelling is NOT always a sure guide to the spoken language.  Based on SPELLING, some people improperly pronounce the t in "often", not recognizing that the "t" is from the short form "oft" and is LOST when -en is added . . . as in soft > soften, compare list > listen; haste > hasten, etc.)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection\n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nIncidentally, this process or metathesis explains the origins of some modern English words.   Old English had "brid", now it is "bird";  Old English &quo
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Merriam-Webster's website has the standard dictionary entry that would tell you how to pronounce it, PLUS you can play an audio file that will read it for you, so you can hear it. Coolness!\n\npah-poo-ah\nor \npah-pyoo-ah\n\nAccent on the first syllable.