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HelpRe: Is Ayn too connected to Rand?
in reply to a message by mirfak
Right - because they can't figure Ayn out phonetically, because it's unfamiliar. And other people heard it and repeated it confidently, because they thought, oh it must be foreign, and it must make sense in some other language. But it doesn't. Ayn Rand made it up for herself, and pronounced it Ein. Eleanor and Caoimhe have linguistic roots. Eleanor came into English after decades or centuries of the E and A sounds slowly blending together. Caoimhe is from the Irish language where phonemes are completely different. Ayn's linguistic root is Finnish if anything (it's sort of based off of Aino, maybe) and in that case the pronunciation is still: Ein.
It's totally bizarre that people say it Ann, and also literally incorrect.
It's totally bizarre that people say it Ann, and also literally incorrect.
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