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Okay, I've been thinking about this name for a while and now that someone asked about the (I moan) problem of Naomi (not really a problem because it's not so obvious), I was reminded of Lana.

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I used to like it pronounced LAH-na and it made me think of old Hollywood and of Lana Turner. Do you say it LAH-na or LAY-na ?

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I was pretty quick to notice what it read backwards, though. I also instantly remembered a game I played quite often with friends in elementary school. As soon as we knew how to read we would figure out how to read our names backwards. We played games and called each other by the backwards name all day. We did that over and over again and thought it was a lot of fun. Now imagine little kids screaming "Anal, Anal, come here" at your daughter. I don't know but from then on I couldn't like the name anymore at all even though I did before. I just would never ever use it because of that.

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I thought about spelling it Lahna and Lanah but it didn't work, it destroyed the name completely.

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I also wouldn't want to use longer forms like Svetlana because she'd still be Lana anyway.

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It's not and issue anymore because I don't really like it anymore and have other favorites now. It's just that I hear it sometimes on TV and then I think hmmmm actually it sounds pretty that anal thing is such a shame.

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Just curious if you'd still use it. Of course many names read unfortunate things backwards or have bad meanings but anal is just too bad in my opinion.