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[Opinions] Shayna and Shani
WDT? I generally like longer, more elaborate names, but these two are growing on me, possibly because they've got nice meanings. I used to snub Shayna because it reminded me of Shayna Twain and therefore looked all country music-y and tacky, but I like it better now, possibly since I found out it's actually a Jewish name and has a history.
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Errrr.... Shayna and Shania are two completely different names with different spellings and meanings.Also adding that my name is Shayna. It's alright. Done me well. But people have a fricken hard time wrapping their heads around the pronunciation, and it's a simple enough name. It's a source of constant annoyance to me, because I just don't GET how people can look at it and not understand: shay-na. I've been shah-NIE-ah, SHAN-yuh, SHAN-nah (skipping over the "y" sound entirely, then?) and a number of other stupid things. It's NOT that hard! *headdesk*/rant

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I work with a Shana, pronounced SHAN-nah, and she gets called Shannon and Shayna constantly, even by people who've worked with her for years. Oy.
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Oh, me too...Except my middle name is Shaina. I've gotten Shy-Anna, Shana, Sheena, Shania, etc...
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I prefer your spelling! But it still looks like it sounds.I actually tend to congratulate people who get either my first or my last name right the first time. Which is silly, but it makes me smile, too.
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I love both the sound and meaning of Shayna. It's sometimes spelled Sheine and Jeanette or Jane were often used as anglicised approximations of it by girls from Yiddish-speaking families.
In Hebrew the equivalent in meaning is Yaffa.
There's a variant, Shayndel (Sheindel), the name of someone I know.
Shani means "scarlet" in Hebrew and evokes the legend of the "scarlet thread".
I love Shayna.
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I like Shayna (shie-nah) better than Shani (shah-nee). But I'm more into Yiddish than modern Hebrew names, so that may be why. It's Shanya Twain, by the way ;)
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It's Shania Twain, pronounced shuh-NIE-uh - totally different name to Shayna (SHAY-na or SHIE-nuh).I don't like Shayna much, but Shani is okay. For names with this sound, I prefer the Welsh names Sian and Siani.
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