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Re: Jorie and Jhori?
If you know a girl with it, and it is her official birth certificate name and not a nickname, then of course it is a "real name". If you know the girl, why don't you know how the name is pronounced already? :)This may well just be a respelling created by her parents if this is an American girl, but a little Googling shows that Jhori is both a fairly common surname and a place name in India. Here is a link to an obituary for a dermatologist with the first name of Jhori who was from West Bengal in India:http://www.e-ijd.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5154;year=2009;volume=54;issue=2;spage=200;epage=200;aulast=Coondoo

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Just wanted to chime in and say that I knew a Jorie but it was a nickname for Marjorie. Now, I don't know if that is the case with the girl you know.
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I've only talked to her online? I've always said it the way Jorie is said for lack of better knowledge.
She is American but from what I know, she and her family travel a lot so maybe her parents picked it up in India... it does seem plausible.
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Actually, born in Orissa, the neighbouring state to the south/southwest. It is definitely not a common Bengali first name and I do not know the meaning of the name.
I would pronounce it as jhori, where the first consonant jh does not exist in English: it is the voiced aspirated palatal affricate, though since there is no phonemic distinction between the affricate and plosive, nor between palatal and post-alveolar, some allophonic and dialectic variation is heard. The -r is definitely somewhat trilled, but I am not sure whether it is the flapped retroflex unaspirated voiced consonant. The -o- is as in English bone, but could be shorter, and the -i is short as in hit.I have no idea what the name means: have to ask someone from Orissa. It may be associated associated with heavy rain or storm, from a word jhaD. of uncertain etymology, but may be connected to the root jhR in Sanskrit which was associated with water flowing/falling down as in mountainous streams.
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Oh ... and the name there is male, not female: the Shri at the beginning is like Mr. (The Mrs. would be Shrimati or Smt. and Miss would be Kumari or Km.)
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