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I used to work with a black woman whose name was spelled Tanian and yet was pronounced tye-ANN-ah. Should have been TAN-ee-an. tye-ANN-ah said her father had named her, and had written her name on her birth certificate himself. He was an uneducated sharecropper.

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~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon