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in reply to a message by aquanoun
It's sort of in between the Tace that Anneza said and Tice (rhymes with "ice"). And overhere in The Netherlands it's custom to give children nicknames or short versions of other names as their given name.
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How about Teys? ('ey' as in 'hey!') Seems a much closer spelling of the pronunciation.
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In my opinion IE is closer to the sound of ij then EY, but the difficult thing is that not everyone pronounces ij the same way. In Belgium for instance it sounds more like a long E. Example: Bijt (to Bite in Dutch) would sound most like Bet (but only a bit longer) in English and where I'm from it sounds more like Bite. So the best I can explain is a sound somewhere in between those...
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