I was born in the midwestern USA but was raised around the world due to my parents’ line of work and ended up with a weird blended accent. So I recorded this twice: once with my natural accent and once with my over-enunciated, fake midwestern accent (pretty sure I’m pronouncing some of these wrong either way lol).
there you go! I live in Tauranga, [name_m]New[/name_m] Zealand ([name_u]Micah[/name_u] i pronounce the Hebrew way as i’m Jewish). BTW I apologise for the TERRIBLE audio quality
[name_m]Hi[/name_m]! I’m from [name_m]Washington[/name_m] State in the USA, so the [name_m]Pacific[/name_m] Northwest. And here is my recording.
This is a really interesting thread, and a few of my favorites were on the list so it was interesting to hear others pronouncing them. The one I had the most trouble with is [name_f]Aurelia[/name_f] because I always want to pronounce it uh-rule-ee-uh but I’ve seen time and again that this isn’t the correct way, haha.
Here’s mine! I’m also from [name_f]England[/name_f]. Originally a Northern lass but I’ve lost my accent () as I’ve travelled around. Some of the names I was unfamiliar with so I went with my first guess!
@floatinthesky I’ve lost quite a bit of my original accent too, apparently. I grew up in Leicestershire but married a southerner. [name_f]My[/name_f] kids say “BAAAATH” and “GRAAAASS”, the horror
I think I ought to re-record mine at some point because my pronunciation of a couple of these seems to have changed over the past two years!
Any you like! The master list is in my OP but you can just pick and choose the ones you want to read if you don’t want to do them all (or even make your own list!)
I decided to do these names:
girls:
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f]
[name_u]Endellion[/name_u]
[name_f]Eilonwy[/name_f]
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f]
[name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
[name_f]Saoirse[/name_f]
[name_f]Zelie[/name_f]
Btw I’m from the southern US but I don’t have much of an accent since my parents grew up in [name_m]Britain[/name_m]. I also didn’t say [name_m]Thierry[/name_m] or [name_m]Ivo[/name_m] bc I’m not sure how to pronounce them.
Hey guys! I’ve been recently uploading to this thread, but I just came across this one! I thought I’d send my own recording of pronunciations from @katinka’s list. I’m from Michigan in the US.
[name_m]Just[/name_m] did a little voice recording in another thread and now I’m on a roll! (Un)fashionably late to this trend but here are the names in my NZ accent.