Dragaera

Concerning Names

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Fri Oct 24 00:59:32 PDT 2003

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Trevor Fiatal wrote:

>David Silberstein wrote:
>
>>    Pronunciation: kee-a-rawn, kee-ran.
>>    Alternates: Ciaran, Kiaran, Kieren, Kieran, Kieron, Keiran.
>
>My youngest (6 weeks old) son's middle name is Kieran.

Well then, congratulations!  Which way do you pronounce it?

>  I tried for Kieron, but the wife was adamantly against that.

Why did she object to the one vowel difference?  It *is* an accepted
variant...