Strictly a pronunciation question
Kim & Rima McKinzey
rkm at SLIP.NET
Sat Jan 20 06:11:19 UTC 2001
Have you been following the transatlantic adoption mess? If not,
there are twin girls who were given up for adoption by their birth
mother. A couple in California adopted them after paying $6000 with
a promise of another $2500 when they had it. After having the girls
for a little while, the birth mother came to visit and supposedly to
say goodby. She took them and never returned. Turns out she then
gave them to a British couple who paid $12,200. Definitely a lousy
situation.
However, the articles have said that the California couple named the
6 month old girls Kiara and Keyara. How do you pronounce these???
At first glance they would seem to be identical, but maybe one has an
i macron in first syllable and the other an e macron? Maybe one has
an ash as second vowel and the other a broad a?
Rima
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