Thalia or Cadence

[FannyTheFlamingo]

These are my 2 new favourites. What does everyone think? How would you pronounce Thalia?

I just want to say thank you to @picklefish for mentioning Antonia Forest, because I have been wrecking my brain to find out who wrote books about girls who played cricket at boarding school and was starting to wonder if I had imagined reading them when I was a child.

Thalia would be my choice op.

they're the ones! The Cricket Term is the best about cricket, but the other school ones are good too (End of Term is my favourite), as are the holiday ones. They're an interesting mix of books. And Thalia/Tim is definitely an important character in the school ones.

Talia is pronounced taa lia.

Thalia is pronounced Tarlia.

Talia is pronounced taa lia.

Yes.

Thalia is pronounced Tarlia.

How? How can you make a second letter turn into a completely different third letter

No idea why some people are sticking an R sound in the middle of it though

I don't think anyone is actually adding an R sound. In a lot of English accents, and most (all?) of Welsh ones, the letter R is silent immediately before a consonant, or at the end of a word. So when someone with one of those accents writes "Tarlia", they're using a "silent R" to make the A sound "long" in their local accent. Like the difference in the A sound between barn and ban.

Not at all keen on either of them. How grim to go through life constantly having to tell people how to spell or pronounce your first name. This does seem to be something that divides people down the middle. Whenever this issue comes up on MN, some people with unusual names say how much they love them but as least as many say they've always hated their names (and many change them at the first opportunity). Flipside is that many with very ordinary names don't like them either, I suppose. No way of knowing in advance what sort of personality your child is going to have. A super-confident child will breeze through having a tricky name, a shyer one might not.

Talia

I'd pronounce Thalia with the Th.
Cadence is too try hard ( to be different)

How? How can you make a second letter turn into a completely different third letter

The same way H in ghastly turns gastly to garstly. And Gana to Garna in Ghana. Assuming you don’t have a northern accent.

Same way h in ghost turns gost to goast.

That’s just how it’s pronounced. I know several Thalias.

I'd pronounce Thalia with the Th.

Would you call Thailand, Thighland? And the Thames Thems?

I have a Talia so obviously love it. We went with Talia to avoid any mispronunciations shes Tah -lee-ah.

Sometimes she's get Italia or Talya though, it annoys her.

Don't like Cadence. Reminds me of the boys' name Caden.

I don't like Thalia with the 'th' sound- sounds like you've got a lisp. Talia is nice and I would definitely not go with the 'th' spelling or sound.

Oh dear. I thought it was Thay lee a with a th sound.

The same way H in ghastly turns gastly to garstly. And Gana to Garna in Ghana

But it isn't GaRna it's Ga-nah.

An H is the second letter positions does not, in the English language make an T sound further into the word. That's ridiculous.

An R sound

Caddy for short?

Thalia is nice :)

Ghana pronounciation:

An H is the second letter positions does not, in the English language make an T sound further into the word

What are you on about?

Thalia is my favourite. Went to school with a girl of Greek Cypriot heritage and the TH sound was pronounced. Also know a few little Talia’s which are pronounced as they’re written so I’d consider these two different names - one with the TH and The other Tah-lee-a.

tati apart from the fact that link is American anyway, it doesn't pronounce Ghana with an R in the middle anyway. So not sure what your point was?

citybzg See my earlier comment. The R is often silent in some English and Welsh accents. People with those accents might then use the letter R to make the preceding vowel sound "long". To a SE English person, Ghana and Garna sound the same. The R sound itself is not pronounced. It's just an accent thing.

Both are dire

As per the link Ghana is pronounced Garna not Gaana.

It’s actually an international site and the pronounciations are uploaded from all over the world generally by native speakers.

Are you not English city? You don’t seem very familiar with English pronunciation. (Fine if you’re not)

I'm not English no, I am British. Very familiar with the use of the English language.

But still, there is no R in the pronunciation of Ghana. And there is no provision in the English language that an H as the second letter in a word gives the word an R sound further into the word. It's just not a thing.

My 80 year old mum would be thrilled to see this thread.

She's a Thalia, pronounced THAY-lee-ah. My grandmother named her after the Greek muse of comedy.

DM has always hated it

As others have said, Cadence isn't a name, it's a descriptive term.