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From: "len wood" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Mina ... pronunciation
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:54:43 -0400
References: <000101c465e1$56a4bba0$12934b40@maui.net>


I have an aunt Mina / Wilhelmina and it is pronounced min like win so your
assumption correct all along.never heard it pronounced the other way ever.
Len
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From: "Barbara Wessinger" <>
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:10 PM
Subject: [Lon] Mina ... pronunciation


> Hello again,
> In my London ancestry and farther down the line there are women with the
given name of "Mina".
> I have always assumed the pronunciation to be with a short " i " as in
minnow or minute.

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