Arabic-L:LING:Needs help with pronunciation of Arabic names

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 18 May  2004
From:eareyes at sbcglobal.net
Subject:Needs help with pronunciation of Arabic names

We are authors and are writing a book about how to name your child
based on the phonetic structure of your surname. It will be published
in 2005 by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Puntnam.

The names on our lists are drawn from the U.S. Social Security Office's
list of registered baby names going back to 1900. It totals about 1,500
names. Part of our struggle is finding correct pronunciations for the
names derived from certain cultural orgins.

I am writing to ask if someone can help us discover the proper way to
pronounce any of the names on our lists that come from a Middle Eastern
origin. As a thanks for doing us this favor, we can most likely find
room to thank you in our book Acknowledgments.

Contact Eric Reyes or Whitney Walker at 510-635-2593 or email:
whitwalk at sbcglobal.net. Thanks.

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