"Andrea"

[Wilson Gray]

That could very well be the case. I'm (relatively) familiar only with
Homeric Greek. The only thing that I know about Modern Greek - I read
this somewhere and several native-speaker friends and colleagues have
confirmed it - pronouncing the digraph TS [tau sigma] as English CH -
[C], i.e. ch as in "cherry" - is a sign of lower-class origin. The
spelling pronunciation is the "proper" one.

-Wilson


On 1/5/06, David Bergdahl <einstein at frognet.net> wrote:
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> A colleague's wife (she's from a Greek family from Salt Lake City, UT) named
> her daughter 'anDREa'--I always thought it was a Greek pronunciation.  The
> girl is in her 30s now.
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