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in reply to a message by HarderToBreathe
Well, my first thought on seeing Nephele was "oh god I am so gonna say that wrong!"
I would've guessed it to be Greek because it reminds me of the horrors of Persephone (which I was pronouncing "percy phone" until we did the Greek myths at school).
My guess at pronunciation was "neh-feel" with the stress on the second syllable. Neh-fell-ee is nicer but I still want to stress the middle syllable instead of the first.
For me Nefeli makes so much more sense pronunciation-wise. That actually looks like neh-fell-ee. Nice and easy. I don't think it needs to be Nephelie...
Nephelë makes sense with pronunciation too but I reckon that umlaut really would get annoying especially when typing.
So... my vote is for Nefeli.
It's an okay name, and fine if you're Greek. If you weren't Greek (or living there) I'd probably be like "Um, why?"
Leo Alexander - b. 2012
Maeve Luna & Tamsin Rose - b. 2014
I would've guessed it to be Greek because it reminds me of the horrors of Persephone (which I was pronouncing "percy phone" until we did the Greek myths at school).
My guess at pronunciation was "neh-feel" with the stress on the second syllable. Neh-fell-ee is nicer but I still want to stress the middle syllable instead of the first.
For me Nefeli makes so much more sense pronunciation-wise. That actually looks like neh-fell-ee. Nice and easy. I don't think it needs to be Nephelie...
Nephelë makes sense with pronunciation too but I reckon that umlaut really would get annoying especially when typing.
So... my vote is for Nefeli.
It's an okay name, and fine if you're Greek. If you weren't Greek (or living there) I'd probably be like "Um, why?"
Leo Alexander - b. 2012
Maeve Luna & Tamsin Rose - b. 2014
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