Help settle a bet about Ayn Rand...how do you pronounce her first name?

A friend and I have a $100 bet...how do you pronounce writer Ayn Rand's first name?





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Help settle a bet about Ayn Rand...how do you pronounce her first name?
EYE n - it rhymes with line





Edit: My professors ALL pronounced her name EYEn - Please look at these sources:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_t...


"Ayn Rand (Ayn rhymes with "mine"), Alissa (Alice) Zinovievna Rosenbaum...


With a Simple Guide, that could be written:





Ayn Rand (AHYN RAAND), Alissa (Alice) Zinovievna Rosenbaum...


Just as important, using a redirect the author of this line could have easily linked the pronunciation markup to the Simple Guide, something like this:





'''Ayn Rand''' ([[WSPGA | AHYN RAAND]]), Alissa (Alice) Zinovievna Rosenbaum...





http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d98/Ayn...


Click on "Audio Pronounciation" to hear the way her name is said


"Ayn Rand


Jewish-American author and philosopher





Name: Ayn





Phonetic Pronunciation: ine





Audio Pronunciation: (link)





Name: Rand





Phonetic Pronunciation: rand





Audio Pronunciation: (link)





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http://www.tommcmahon.net/2004/03/how_to...


"How To Pronounce the 'Ayn' in ' Ayn Rand'


"Ayn" rhymes with "Mine". I heard it pronounced on an audiotape narrated by Nathaniel Branden, who should know. A pretty good mnemonic for the author of The Virtue of Selfishness, don't you think"





http://volokh.com/posts/1130456809.shtml


"As Rand herself used to say, it rhymes with "mine".





http://www.aynrandeducation.com/AboutAR....


"How do you pronounce "Ayn"?





"Ayn" rhymes with "mine."





Excerpted from a letter to a fan, 1937:


"Your letter inquiring about the origin of my name has been forwarded to me. In answer to your question, I must say that 'Ayn' is both a real name and an invention. The original of it is a Finnish feminine name. . . . Its pronunciation, spelled phonetically, would be: 'I-na.' I do not know what its correct spelling should be in English, but I chose to make it 'Ayn,' eliminating the final 'a.' I pronounce it as the letter 'I' with an 'n' added to it." Letters of Ayn Rand, page 40"
Reply:Your got your answer. Her name sounds like "Ann".
Reply:Like, "Ann"
Reply:I've been told it's pronounced like Ann. I've never heard anyone pronounce it any other way.