I’m sorry but some of you are pronouncing your names wrong.
And I don’t think the pronunciation of Shayna is obvious. For it to be obvious, I should be able to easily pronounce the syllables that make up the name. I have no idea how to pronounce “Shay”. My educated guess might be right, but based on some of the screwball pronounciations we’re seeing in this thread, I can’t be certain. I know that when I see it, my mind says “Shanaya”, who is, I think, some sort of country western singer.
Rhymes with “say,” I would assume. I suppose it could also be “shy,” but I’ve never heard Shayna/Shaina pronounced that way. It’s the feminine form of the name “Shane.”
I see your name and think to pronounce it Kah/reechee or Kah/reesee, not Kah/deech. Wherefrom the deech? I know someone with Ricci as a last name, and it’s Reesee…
POOH-kuh. An archaic variant of “puck”. That is, the type of faerie Robin Goodfellow is, in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, my favorite of his comedies. IRL, I go by my middle name, Robin.
IG-niss glass-ee-ESS-kway. Or however you wanna pronounce it. It’s Latin anyways, and one thing about that language is that you basically can choose your own pronunciation at will.
This might be one of those “divided by a common language” phenomena. I (and all other English speakers I’ve actually heard) pronounce “Indigo” INN-duh-go, with the second vowel actually a schwa as opposed to a short u. If I had seen “Sindigo” in isolation, however, I might have assumed it to be Spanish, and thus pronounced it as you do.
silenus: I always figured “Caricci” was Italian, and I thus pronounced it “kah-REE-chee”, but some Italian-Americans drop the final syllable. Also, I know that “Laura” sounds much like “Lauda” in Spanish, so I’m not surprised that Italians may also pronounce the “r” as if it’s a “d”. I could see Caricci saying “The name’s Kah-DEECH, capisce?”
Some people imitate a certain European “r” sound (the alveolar flap, as in Spanish “pero,” or sometimes even an alveolar trill) as a “d” sound in English. Think of how sometimes people will say “veddy veddy” to imitate an Eastern European pronunciation of the words “very very.”
