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[Opinions] Jamila
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My daughter would have liked to be called Jamila,when she discovered that both her paternal great-grandmothers had been named that.(I guess it was the Charlotte or Ava of that time and place.)
My husband, though, pronounces it Gamila, which I don't like. Not that I knew about the same-named grandmothers at the time.
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How nice! Perhaps she'll have a little Jamila one day herself. :-)I'm not fond of the Gamila variant. For me, the rich, gooey "J" sound at the beginning sets up the warm "meel" sound perfectly. (Thus the workings of a name-nerd's brain.)
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