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in reply to a message by Miranda
plus, it's pronounced "eye-bis".
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
"Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"
- 'Home', Michael Buble
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"
- 'Home', Michael Buble
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I know most say it as eye-bis but the way I have heard the person with the name say it's more like ee-bis
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Is the person you know with this name a Hispanic-American? The pronunciation you describe who be close to the one in Spanish, and Ibis seems to be primarily a Hispanic name in the USA. I think it still comes from the name of the bird, however, whether it's Spanish or English. Alondra, the Spanish word for "lark", has been very popular as a girls' name in Latin America recently, and Iris is also really common in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, so it would be no surprise that Ibis would be taken up as a girls' name by Hispanic parents.
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