>>>FWIW, my partners name is Tamar. Maybe because her father was half Georgian (where I believe it is common) or maybe because her mother lived near the Tamar (a river on the Devon/Cornwall border)
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>>Probably pronounced differently than I do, though. I'll bet she's "TAY-mahr," since that's how I'm told the river is pronounced. I pronounce it "tuh-MAHR," which is close to, but not quite, the Hebrew pronunciation.
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>>Tamar
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>And now I know. I've always mentally pronounced it 'tam-mar'.

Yeah, that's a common one I hear. One advantage of having an unusual name is that it makes it easy to screen out the sales calls. <g>

Tamar