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TAH-lee-ah

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that would be the Dutch way...

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tha-LIE-ah

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These are the pronunciations listed on both the Oxford English Dictionary (http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50250233?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=thalia&first=1&max_to_show=10) and the Encarta dictionary (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/thalia.html - listen to the spoken pronunciation)

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I prefer this pronunciation over all the others.

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This message was edited 12/1/2006, 12:27 AM

TAR-lia.

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:)

I say tal-ee-ah.

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~ Arcadia ~

TAHL-ya.

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"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."
- Mark Twain.

TAL-ee-ah, is how I would say it.

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This message was edited 11/30/2006, 3:13 PM

Tal-ee-uh

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Future Mom to Adeline and...?

Actually, I pronounce it THAYL-yuh, with the accent on the first syllable. That's because I learned how to pronounce the name from watching an old American television show called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, where Thalia Menninger was the beautiful girl the teenage Dobie had his main crush on, and that was how the name was said in that series:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis

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However, in the USA today most girls being given this name are of Hispanic or Greek descent, and they tend to pronounce it as TAHL-ee-ah, like the American television reporter Thalia Assuras does.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_Assuras

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By the way, the modern pronunciation with the "t" instead of the "th" sound I think has definitely been influenced by Spanish or other European languages where the English "th" sound does not occur. Since the original Greek name begins with "theta", and the Greek letter theta was pronounced with the sound heard in the English word "thin" by the 2nd century A.D., one could argue that a pronunciation with the "th" sound reflects better the way the name would have been pronounced when it was first brought into English from Greek.

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http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/lan/thetapro.htm

This message was edited 11/30/2006, 1:30 PM

I prefer THAY-lee-a, but it seems like it's most commonly pronounced TAHL-ya or TAHL-ee-a.

Tah.lee.uh

The H is silent, and there is definitely no R in it. (Aussie are you?)

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I say it like the name Talia, somewhere between tal-ee-uh and tal-ya depending on how slowly I'm speaking.

I would say TAHL-ya or THAL-ya.

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Well, I know a theatre with ths name pron. ta-LI-ah, but I would normally pron. it TA-li-ah.

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I don't know if this is correct, but I say, "THAY-lia."

neither do I sorry

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I don't say it like any of those.

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I say TAL-yah (with the A in TAL sounding like the A in "apple" or "drag") or TAHL-yah alternately.

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