>>>>>My simple name not only gets mispronounced all the time (and not only here in Canada but also in my home country, Argentina) but also misspelled a lot, normally as Ranae here in Canada, and Ramea in Argentina, and mine is only 5 letters long!
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>>>>Mine's only 6, but it's amazing how having 3 vowels together can really throw people off
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>>>So is it "beard," "baird" or something else?
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>>>Tamar
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>>'Beard', tho' it looks funny to me written that way :-). Apparently, the name is common in Ireland, England and Scotland and where your family is from set how it's pronounced. 'Beaird' seems to be the historically correct spelling and, if you go back far enough, 'Beaird', 'Beard', and 'Baird' are all related.
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>>The root of the name comes from 'one who is a Bard'
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>Cool!
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>Filing the correct pronunciation in my head. I've also assumed that your first name is pronounced the same as "Doris." Correct?
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>Tamar
Yuppers, my grandmother added the extra 'r' to my mother's name so it would match her twin Norris.