Since I went off topic anyway, let me continue by responding to
Le Scaramouche's comment that "Actualy, Arab names aren't easy to pronounce by Americans".

I agree that we Americans have our own way of pronouncing different names from English and other languages. And I'll go further and say that African Americans have pronunciation traditions that often are different than those of European Americans.

For example, I believe that Americans routinely place the accent on the 2nd to the last syllable of a name. However, there's a difference in how we pronounce the 'a' vowel..as in the name "Tanya"

White Americans- TAN [rhymes with fan] yah

Black Americans- TAHN-yah

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That "a"="ah" pronunciation by African American is used throughout our vocal music and rhymes. For example, there's a common starting chant for children that goes like this

a one
and a two
and you know what to do

-snip-

In this rhyme "a" is pronounced 'ah' and not like the 'a' in 'say'.

I just thought you might want to know more about this off topic info...


Azizi {ah-ZEE-zee}