Maria nn Ria?

[birdofthenorth]

Sort of a compromise but I'm warming to it, what do you think?

Thanks

Rear?

my friend is Ria - her mum liked the woman Ria from that programme Butterflies

I think Ria is an established nn for Maria.

Either way I like it.

Are you going for the traditional UK/US "Muh-Rye-ah" (stress on middle syllable - so NN would probably be "Rye-ah) - in which case, I think it's fine.

If you are going for the European "Ma-REE-ah", then NN comes out as "rear" and I really wouldn't.

my friend did get called Gonna and Dyer at school

It's my name, which I neither love not hate.
I have never ever been called Ria, some people did once try calling me Maz in the early 90s but I managed to quash that particular hideousness.
One of the main perks of the name is that on being introduced other people frequently burst into song, old men especially. I quite like that.

My sister is Maria, called Ria or Ree. She had no problems with her name. Hers was the european pronunciation.

I know a Ria. Never occurred to me that it sounded like rear, because it doesn't.

Anyway I prefer Mia as a short form of Maria.

It's not pronounced MA-rye-a in the US - haven't you seen West Side Story? Uk yes, US no.

In any case Ria sounds harsh - I much prefer Mia.

I've always said it like Mah-Ree-ah and I went to a irish catholic school where shall we say it was popular (my accent makes it come out like Muh-ree-ah though. Like a soft Mah not a harsh one)

Muh-Rye-ah as in Carey? If someone said that was their name I'd be adding a h on the end.

Ria works fine. I like it actually. Mia works fine as well.

Love Maria.

Can't hear Rhea/Ria without thinking diarrhea.

Mia is nice.

Muh-Rye-Ah (as in Carey) is spelt Mariah. Mar-Ree-ah is spelt Maria. As in Ave Maria.

My DM is called Maria. Usually shortened to Marie. Some cousins call her Auntie Ree Or Ria (REE-AAH. Nothing like Rear.)

I know a Ria, shortened from Maria. It has never occured to me in the ten or so years I have known her that it sounds like rear. I like it; Mia is nice too but very popular at the moment, if that makes any difference.

I'm glad I'm not the only obe re Maria and Mariah. (Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum Benedicta tu in mulieribus - thankfully that is the only part I can remember and it scares me I can remember that much. But it did just pop into my head, bloody nuns )

I think Maria unshortened ina lovely classic name

ria sounds like a backside and I don't know what would possess someone to call their daughter it

The pronunciation Ma-RYE-ah is the old-fashioned UK style. (Think 'Black Maria'.) This is how it was pronounced before the 20th century, when the Latin pronunciation came into fashion. The same applies to Sophia (So-FYE-ah).

It's nothing to do with having an 'h' at the end.

I think the nicknames of dia- and gonnor- and -rend wouldn't have occurred had the Rhea I knew not been a real betch.