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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 7:30am |
How would you pronounce Anais?
Ok I would pronounce it like "anne aye", what do you think?
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my2angels
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 7:32am |
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i was thinking anne-ece (kind of like ice but starting with and e) but I have no idea how its suppose to be pronounced
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 7:38am |
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I think an-eyes but I don't know either.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 7:45am |
 emmaohara wrote:
How would you pronounce Anais?
Ok I would pronounce it like "anne aye", what do you think?
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yep, i would too.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 8:49am |
GandT wrote:
emmaohara wrote:
How would you pronounce Anais?
Ok I would pronounce it like "anne aye", what do you think?
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yep, me too. it looks French and that would be the French pronounciation.....Ann-ay. Beautiful sounding name.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 9:57am |
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It is, it's French and you pronounce it "Ann-ay".
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 10:08am |
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I would say it like "aah-nay".
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 10:12am |
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It is, it's French and you pronounce it "Ann-ay". |
Thinking more about it would it be ANN-ay or a-NAY?
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 10:14am |
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I like it! I think its a brand name of something?!Pufume maybe?! I dunno! Lol!
Anne- ay sounds lovely! Isla is a name whcih people often pronounce wrong cos it doesnt sound as it spells, so I would be careful using a name people get constantly wrong! Although I knew people would get Isla wrong, we still used it! Isla is said eye-la (as in Island), but people say Is -la or Eyes- la,...grrrr! He he!
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 11:17am |
Thanks ladies, going to go with saying it "annaye" which we LOVE lets keep our fingers crossed it a girl aye, don't think it would suit a boy!!
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 11:27am |
It's a beautiful name  And yes, nzpiper I think it would be more like a-Nay - I couldn't figure out how to write it phonetically!
I really love the name Aerin - which is also French (pronounced like air-in).
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 11:36am |
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It was a brand of sunglasses. I'm not sure if they still sell them but I'm pretty sure it was spelt like that and I was told that it was pronounced "aah-nay". It's a really nice sounding name though and a little different which I love.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 11:37am |
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Oh thats beautiful!!! LOL but no doesn't quite suit a boy!! I love the name Isla too!! We have it on our 'girls' list... but I was also worried about people pronouncing it wrong. (Although I think nearly all names get pronounced wrong at some stage, I used to get ni-cola - like the drink)
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 12:13pm |
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It was perfume too - Anais Anais. There was a famous writer named Anais Nin.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 12:38pm |
Number one on my girls list was Eabha... It's Gaelic and pronounced like Ava... But DF completely refused because of the reasons stated above (being pronounced wrong etc) 
Anais is gorgeous though!
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 12:44pm |
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Yep, Anne-Aye, like the perfume.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 1:27pm |
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Lol Yeah I thought it was a purfume! I Think its a great name! (but I said that already!)
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 2:18pm |
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didn't anais nin write erotica?
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:43pm |
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i like how you want to say it but i would spell it how you say it because the poor child will be teased. Or am i the only one that can see "anus".
Sorry but love the name.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:53pm |
I think it's lovely. Love Isla too of course! 
My fave girl name at the moment is Naimh (pronounced neeve) but DH won't have a bar of it.
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