to be a bit fed up with all this Anna/ARNA business

[itsnotjustastick]

Its finally getting on my tits!

I can cope with the songs
I can cope with the invasion onto EVERY product

I can even cope with incessant begging on FB 'does anyone have a spare...?'

But really hearing people say 'ARNA' instead of Anna just tips me over the edge and makes me lose my Christmas spirit.

I know that that's how her name is pronounced in the film, but i live in England and we say ANNA.

[trots off to open the christmas sherry early]

Yes, I know we apparently used to say gotten way back in the 15th and 16th centuries but we haven't for 400 years so why now?

But you say "forgotten" right?

Us Southerners pronounce words perfectly thanks. And btw it's "mum" not "mam"

Sorry, for some reason I didn't think of the spelling of Marie/Mhari - the name just stirred a memory of school and Billy Connolly - "Appreciate! Appreciate!"

People who say they thought it was Honour: why would someone speaking in a rhotic accent all of a sudden go non-rhotic for the name?

I haven't seen the film, but if she's speaking in an American accent, I assume it's rhotic.

In Cornwall we say bath the same as Northerners. No bahths here or grahss we are all about the short a.

Little girl I know has the name Anna as her middle name. She is from Sweden and pronounces it as Ahna. Therefore, as that is how HER name is said, that is the pronunciation I use when addressing her.

However, I also know two other girls who shorten their name to Anna at times and their names are pronounced Anna in the English way - so with them I pronounce it that way.

In the film Frozen the girl's name is pronounced Ahna so that is how it should be said if talking about her.

I've namechanged for this as it'd out me.

As you might guess from my new nn, his has PISSED ME OFF NO END.

In fact we went through 3/4 of the film with DD thinking she had finally come across someone with her name.

Sorry, HonorDD; you could only be angry at Disney if Anna had been using an accent in which Honor would sound like Ahna.

I saw Frozen and thought it was Honor. Either way the film was dire.

Apparently way back when everyone in England used to say bath not bahth etc. Then suddenly in the eighteenth (I think) century south easterners started changing it for no apparent reason. So we northerners are actually right

I agree with Iheartmoomies I doubt it's pronounced Onna to honour the Scandinavian location, but maybe i'ts pronounced Onna by Americans because of its usage being most popular amongst populations in the mid west with a scandinavian descent. A bit like Rose from The Golden Girls if anybody remembers that!

Yes, it's only people in the south of england that say bahhth. All other English speakers say bath.

I have not seen Frozen yet but Father Christmas is bringing it for DS (as I thought he would like it) so will look forward to that!

The one that grates on me is the pronunciation of 'Graham' by Americans in films as 'Gram'. I was watching The Holiday last night and it reminded me...I thought it was a name I hadn't heard before the first time I heard it and then noticed on the credits it was actually Graham.

My sister's name is Anna. Has been pronounced Anna for over 30 years, but now people are saying Ahna. It's weird!

That should have read 'I thought I would like it'.

Some Americans do pronounce Graham correctly. Go to any area with a lot of Scottish Americans (like North Carolina) and you will hear it with two syllables.

Also Scottish actor Graham McTavish has become popular in the States because of the Outlander series (based on Diana Gabaldon's books). I've noticed a tendency of American interviewers and presenters to pronounce his name with two syllables.

Surely if Anna was pronounced with some sort of American accent it would sound more like Aanna / Ainna?

Considering half the population are adults you would've thought they would engage brains when watching a kids film and manage to work much of this out for themselves.

Let it go.....

I think the way most Americans pronounce Anna is the way most British people pronounce it. Certainly not Ainna.

I have an Annabelle my friend who KNOWS her name wrote "arnabelle" on her Christmas present I wouldn't mind but my DD's don't even like frozen any more as its "everywhere" and she also knows this! This friend loves my DD's takes them out at least once a fortnight and she knows them.

"How do y'all pronounce Eugenie, by the way, as in the York princess?"

i saw a clip on youtube of when she was young & on a pony with the Queen walking beside & iirc QE said the middle syllable short iyswim.

People with certain westcountry accents say Baath.. (the a that's in back but elongated..)

My DD always calls Anna, Ona too. I've always thought it was Anna pronounced in a Scandinavian way.

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