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From: "Don" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Mina ... pronunciation
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:09:06 -0400
References: <BAY16-F31jANJQ0wwrH0003dabd@hotmail.com>


My Grandmothers name was Minnie, pronounced as spelled

Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "hey wyre" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Mina ... pronunciation


> My daughter's name is Nina (pronounced Neena) - however, there is a woman
at
> the bank whose name is Nina but she pronounces it Nyna
>
> I guess there are two sides to every story
>
> Judy
> BC Canada
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "wilhelmina griffin" <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Lon] Mina ... pronunciation
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:37:15 +0100
>
> As someone with a 'mina' in my name - Wilhelmina- I can assure you that I
> and others I've come across, when this part of our names are used it is
> pronounced 'Meena'
> Regards,
> Billie
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara Wessinger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:10 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.
> > Recently I spoke with someone who had an aunt Mina and she said the
> family
> always used the long " i "I
> > as in "might" making it "Myna". I was shocked! That is the name of
> our
> bird "Mynah" :-)
> > But I'm willing to be corrected and since the Minas in my family
> are long gone I cannot ask them.
> > Any others out there with this name in your families? How
> do
> you say it?
> > Barbara on Maui
> >
> >
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