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[Facts] How do you pronounce Annika?
So how do you pronounce Annika? Is it "ann-ih-ka", or "an-NEEK-a"?? (Or is it "ahn" for the ann part?)
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There are several pronounciations, but I say ANNE-ih-kuh.
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I prefer the Finnish prn. of AHN-nee-kah.
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o, just say anika, it is in Slovene too
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I've only ever heard ANN-ih-kuh :-)_____________________________________________________________________"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
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That's a class of our own my love"Elinor
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"Star Trek: Voyager" says AW-nik-ahAnd I say the same. I think I was definitely influenced by Voyager, but I can't recall whether I heard Annika first on it or not.
Miranda
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In Sweden, it is pronounced UNN-ee-kah (or ONN-ee-kah), it is hard to describe without a phonetic alphabet. The big difference is in the pronounciation of the first A.I think Annika is originally Dutch (Anneke) but I'm not sure how it is pronounced there.I think that I myself would pronounce it as ANN-ick-a if I went to USA, but I don't know which pronounciation is considered "correct" in USA.
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AHN-nee-ka
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Actually...There's not a 'correct' pronounciation. There are several, including ANN-ihk-uh, AHN-ihk-uh, ah-NEEK-uh, and there are probably more, too.
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"ahn ih ka," I'd say.
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That is my great neices name and her parents say AH-neh-ka
p.s. We all call here Annie.
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I like the name... this is the problem.Everyone pronounces it differently.
Thanks for sharing. :-)
(Goes for Eilis Catriona too (sorry if I spelled that wrong).)
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