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00100001 · 16/06/2015 16:43

So, it turns out that Calliope is pronounced kah-ly-ah-pee - I just assumed is was "cally-ope" and was thinking, what an odd name to give someone Blush

Any others?

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LibrariesGaveUsPower · 22/06/2015 19:31

Hazlenutt - Not sure. I'm definitely thinking way earlier than Kate Moss. But I'd only have been a kid, so maybe I'm mixing it up with the way the ladies in Debenhams said it Grin. The perfume was definitely regularly referred to as Anay Anay round my way in my childhood.

Brummiegirl15 · 22/06/2015 23:26

I admit I only know how to pronounce Calliope because of Greys Anatomy as well!!

But people not pronouncing my name drives me crazy!!! I'm a Sian. And it's pronounced "Sharn" as the little ^ sign elongates the arrrr sound.

It IS not pronounced "See - ann" what the actual fuck??!! So people are called Sian but they call themselves See-ann

And as for Niamh and Neve!!!!

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