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Merryn Tawhai, FRSNZ, is a New Zealand engineering scientist. She is a professor at the University of Auckland, deputy director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, where she was a fellow from 2002, and a former director of MedTech CoRE. She is known for the development of mathematical models of the lungs that will help scientists understand differences between physiologically normal lungs and the pathological changes that might occur in a disease. She was inducted into the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in June 2018. In November 2018, Tawhai was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Never heard of this name before. It's unusual and pretty.
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Lovely name. I have noticed the Cornish name Elowen become mainstream and get used by lots of Non Cornish people, hope the same doesn't happen too much to this charming name.
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Such a sweet and humble name. Not the sweet of candy but the sweet of daffodils and laughter.
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It's distinctive.
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I stopped correcting people after years of butchered attempts. I love when people get it correctly and ask if they are saying it correctly. I pronounce it as Meh-rin.
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Sounds quite pretty I wish it was more common in the U.S.
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It is correctly pronounced MEH-RIN, or MEH-RUN, people often are very imaginative (not) when pronouncing my name when if they just read it properly I guarantee they would get it right. IT'S HARDLY THAT COMPLICATED.
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I've always pronounced my name and heard it pronounced as 'MEH-rin', or 'Mare-rin', approximately 'mɛɹɪn'.
Often it gets mispronounced as 'Marian', as people tend to read it as 'Merry + n', or spoken quickly as 'Murn'.
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Often it gets mispronounced as 'Marian', as people tend to read it as 'Merry + n', or spoken quickly as 'Murn'.
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Pronounced MARE-in.
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I love the way Merryn sounds, but I wish the meaning on the name was known.
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This is a masculine name, Merryn is used for boys too (St Merryn was a male Saint).
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