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Re: Naemi
I think that if most English speakers were confronted with this spelling and asked to guess the pronunciation with no other information, they would probably say "NAME-ee", with the first syllable just like the word "name".However, most would also see this as a "foreign" spelling and could probably quickly learn to say nah-AY-mee if the German pronunciation was explained to them.
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