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How do you pronounce this Polish name??

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BonApp · 22/10/2017 22:44

Lucyna

I've known this friend of a friend for too long now to ask her Blush

Is it loo-chee-na?

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MrsSchadenfreude · 22/10/2017 22:45

Woo Tsee Na

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ThisIsNotARealAvo · 22/10/2017 22:47

Loo chenna. Unless L has a line through it. I think.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 22/10/2017 22:47

Actually I think Woo Tsi Na. With short "i" like in "bit". Maybe a cross between "i" and "ee".

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MrsSchadenfreude · 22/10/2017 22:51

I think it is an "L" at the start now I think about it, rather than an "Ł" so it would be "Loo Tsi Na" with a slight stress on the middle syllable.

Sorry - I left Poland in 1990 and hardly ever speak it these days.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 22/10/2017 22:52

It is definitely not a "ch" sound in the middle, anyway.

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user1499169579 · 22/10/2017 22:56

This is my mil name. I can't pronounce it. Blush

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winnybella · 22/10/2017 22:59

It's Loo-tsi( i as in 'bit')-na.
MrsSchadenfreude, I think perhaps you're confusing Lucyna and Łucja? Ł is indeed pronounced like 'w'.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 23/10/2017 06:19

Yes, I was getting confused with Łucja! Then I confused myself as I remembered that they were two different names!

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BonApp · 23/10/2017 12:00

Ok thanks all Lootsina it is Grin

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