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Re: Luciana
In Italian: lo-chee-AH-nah
In Castilian Spanish: lo-thee-AH-nah
In Latin American Spanish and in Portugese: lo-see-AH-nah
In Old Latin: lo-kee-AH-naSurrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe where you were sure of finding shirts - Frida Kahlo

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Minimal precisionIn (Castilian or American) Spanish the I and the A in Luciana are in one syllable: loo- THEE AH-nah / loo-SEE AH-nah (I don't know how to represent the diphtongue).Lumia
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Perhaps like loo-SYA-nah / loo-THYA-nah?Array

O come, all ye Grateful
Deadheads to the concert.
O come, Grateful Deadheads,
And camp in the street.A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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