Okay, some of you have asked us how to pronounce little Aliena's name (even one of the grandparents can't get it right!), so we thought we'd give a little tutorial... The first part of the name (Ali) is pronounced just like the word "alley", the second part of the name (en) is pronounced as "en" is usually pronoucned in english (in words such as "end", "chicken", "then", etc.), and the last part of the name (a) is pronounced "uh" (as in "duh"): "alley-en-uh."
The name is of Greek origin, the same origin as the names Helen, Elaine, and Aleana, and means "light." The name Phoebe is also of Greek origin and means "bright moon", although we really chose that as her middle name both because we like the name and because we have fond memories of watching black phoebes (a bird) when we lived in our house in the Santa Cruz redwoods.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment