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Originally Posted by Reggie View Post
krisse,

So is it noh-kee-yah or noh-kyah?

Three syllables or two?

Since the name is Finnish the most notable distinction is what I think you have alluded to here. The main difference is that in Finnish the emphasis is on the FIRST syllable and I think this is what you are getting at. As for the first post that started this thread, I would argue this is not entirely correct and the closest to the Finnish pronunciation is a longer O and not short as in golf. Technically it's probably not exactly the same as either the long or the short O in English.