How do you pronounce "Anais"
Nov 14th, 2002, 12:15 PM
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There used to be an ad on TV for that perfume that pronounced that name correctly, as I recall. I wouldn't give a kid that name, either, as no one knows how to pronounce it and I don't think it's very pleasant-sounding, either; it's difficult to say. Of course, I know I'm biased because I didn't care for her as a person from what I've read and thought her works were self-absorbed and neurotic to the max. I think if someone doesn't want to pronounce it correctly, they should name their daughter a name that would be spelled as "anay", which isn't that one. It gets very confusing later on in life and professionally when your name is pronounced differently than it's spelled (having known a few people with that situation). I don't think "anay" is a very attractive name, but I think some French variants of Hannah like Annelise or Anya or Anyssa are nicer than Anais.
Nov 14th, 2002, 12:20 PM
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My own teenage daughter's name is Anais, a name that she carries beautifully wherever she goes. The occasional mispronunciation has not reduced the profound pleasure I have to hear the sound of that name over and over again. Growing up she has had her moments when she would have liked a more popular and easier name to pronounce, but in the end she has always loved it. She is often called Ana for short by her friends.<BR>She writes with the diaeresis and says it as it should be --Ahnah ees -- with the stress on the last syllable and a soft 's' trailing at the end.<BR><BR>My grand mother's name was also Anais. She was from Aix-en-Provence (where the name is quite popular).<BR>
Nov 14th, 2002, 04:58 PM
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Re: Henry and June - I didn't check it, but from what I remember, Henry says "Anis" (rhymes with "this"
. But his character in the movie is done as rather loutish, and he's American, and the rest of his French is awful, too - I wouldn't use that to determine the pronounciation any more than I would Leo Decaprio's "dar-TAG-nun" in The Man in the Iron Mask (for D'Artagnan).<BR><BR>How about this one: Cartier? The last time we were in either Europe or the states, we saw commercials for Cartier in which the announcer, in a very smooth voice, said: "Car-ti-air", with the "R" at the end very clearly pronounced. I'd always done it as though the word ends in "ay"?
. But his character in the movie is done as rather loutish, and he's American, and the rest of his French is awful, too - I wouldn't use that to determine the pronounciation any more than I would Leo Decaprio's "dar-TAG-nun" in The Man in the Iron Mask (for D'Artagnan).<BR><BR>How about this one: Cartier? The last time we were in either Europe or the states, we saw commercials for Cartier in which the announcer, in a very smooth voice, said: "Car-ti-air", with the "R" at the end very clearly pronounced. I'd always done it as though the word ends in "ay"?
