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[Opinions] Re: WDYTO Mariah?
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I really like the name Mariah far above Maria and Marie. To me it has a pretty, smart, spunky sound which I love. I suppose because she's big in Country music Mariah Carey will be thought of when people hear the name but really to me it has such a fresh face because of it's not being popular that a child would create their own image for this name.
It's a name that would definitely work well for a little girl, teenager or woman. As a side note - In a couple of her novels Jane Austen used Maria for a character and in movie, radio drama, and books on tape productions of those novels the name Maria is always pronounced like Mariah. So I really prefer the spelling without the -h on the end but in this world of mu-ree-uhs it would be a constant battle to get Maria pronounced like Mariah! :)Hope this helps.
Laurie :)
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Totally confused about the Country music thing, since Mariah is all pop and R&B right?
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Really? Didn't know that. Need to bone up on my Jane Austen ;) That's interesting, because in the movie Paint Your Wagon (which I still haven't seen!)there's a song called "They Call the Wind Maria" and it's pronounced Mariah. Still people used to sing it to me when I was a little girl.
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Austen wasn't the only one.As far as I know, mar-EYE-ah was the standard English pronounciation in her time and before. In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the character Maria's name is pronounced just like Mariah.Array
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