As "Ah-LAN-uh", with the second syllable rhyming with "can".
And I'm not sure how you would get around the rhyming issue, because as far as I can see,
Hannah and
Alanna do rhyme. If it were me, I might pick
Hannah and
Helena /
Elena or something, but even those are quite similar. This is one of those situations where a person has to bite the bullet and pick on over the other, I think.
I have met an
Alana. She was a very negative, snobbish person though, so it turned me off the name. It strikes me as a very upper-crust, chilly kind of name, which contrasts sharply to
Hannah's humble grace.
This message was edited 8/18/2009, 7:57 AM