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Post by sillybillygoogoo on May 25, 2009 9:46:55 GMT -5
Has anyone ever found out the real, confirmed way to pronounce Myriah Perkins's first name? It's driving me crazy. I've always pronounced it like Mariah, but it sounds weird with the Y.  |
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Post by msstock87 on May 25, 2009 13:12:50 GMT -5
^I have always pronounced it like Mariah too, I never really thought it was pronounced any other way than that.
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Post by greer on May 25, 2009 15:25:43 GMT -5
I believe Raina asked Ann and posted the answer on the bsc lj community, so check there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 7:44:16 GMT -5
The girl's name Myriah \m(y)-riah\ is a variant of Myra (Greek), and the meaning of Myriah is "myrrh".
I'm guessing it's pronounced like Mariah but with a mir sound in the beginning. It's meaning is myrrh which is an aromatic resin. Hope that helped.
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Post by wenonah4th on Aug 17, 2009 5:50:13 GMT -5
We so overanalyze these things, don't we?!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 10:31:25 GMT -5
Sigh, well it is the summer and i guess none of us have anything constructive to do in our spare-time lol.  |
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 17, 2009 16:20:32 GMT -5
I was thinking it was "Mariah". Just because based on their other daughters' normal names, they didn't seem like the type of parents who would give their kid a whacked-out spelling for simple names like "Maria" or "Myra".
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 17, 2009 16:31:19 GMT -5
I was always of the "Maria" opinion. Now I want to look for Claudia/Perkins chapters to see exactly how she misspelled Myriah's name each time, and if there's any sort of pattern involved that might lead me to think otherwise. ;D There IS a Maria Kilbourne, after all.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 17, 2009 17:46:59 GMT -5
^Now that you mention it, I think Claudia did write "Maria" in a notebook entry. I'm beginning to think "Myriah" is a very stupid name. Way too complicated. |
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Post by cokiemason on Oct 19, 2009 15:32:44 GMT -5
i always hated that name too... its like... "my ria" but if you say that out loud, it doesnt flow nicely. i think ann just bought way too many vowels when naming this kid. or, well... i guess that friend of hers irl did. meh. stupid name.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 21, 2009 18:45:28 GMT -5
I can't find the other thread where we talked about more name pronunciations, so I don't know if this was asked already. I've started reading books that have Mark Jaffe in them. How do you pronounce his last name?
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 21, 2009 19:19:16 GMT -5
Jaff-ee
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Post by cokiemason on Oct 22, 2009 1:51:20 GMT -5
yeah cause they call him 'daffy jaffe' oh boys, so silly... it looks like it should just be 'jaff' though
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 22, 2009 17:33:20 GMT -5
Thanks. I guess I haven't gotten to the 'daffy jaffe' book yet. I was pronouncing it Jay-ff, so now I've got to get that out of my head.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2009 9:41:17 GMT -5
The whole "Myriah" thing bugs me too. I always just thought of pronouncing her name as "Mirr-ahyah".
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