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How do you pronounce Dinah?

28 replies

windfarm · 20/04/2011 00:14

Dh has suggested this, but I'm not sure of the correct pronunciation and we don't agree.
Can you help?

Opinions welcome too.

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Milngavie · 21/04/2011 19:02

Dine-ah. Never heard it pronounced with an 'r' at the end before.

themildmanneredjanitor · 21/04/2011 19:03

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mathanxiety · 22/04/2011 21:00

The R is SE Englandese for 'ah' -- a silent R if it's there and a pronounced R if it's not as in Dinah (which I would pronounce as dye-nah). Being Irish, it used to make me LOL when I first joined MN to see people writing it down as if everyone pronounced/didn't pronounce it as in the Home Counties...

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