Darya: 3 (although this is translating itself to Daria in my head, and I think there's some i/y influence going on)
Jewel: it depends. I think I'm more likely to use 1+ than 2-, but it's square in my fuzzy zone and depends on factors like how quickly I'm speaking. My only association with syllable count here is the recent Terry Pratchett book with a character whose name played with the 1-syllable pronunciation. (Deliberately vague to try to avoid spoilers.)
Poem: 2, although people who use one syllable remind me of a really good English teacher of mine who pronounced it that way.
My current syllables-in-dialects concern is that I grew up in a region where caramel had three very distinct syllables -- CARE-uh-mehl -- and I now live in a region where it has two-minus -- CAR-muhl. It's sufficiently firmly set to two in the various local dialects that signs at fairs almost always advertise "carmel corn". I don't know why I've fixated on this dialectical difference instead of all the other ones, but I'd like to stop, because it makes fairs less pleasant for me.
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Danya: 2
Darya: 3 (although this is translating itself to Daria in my head, and I think there's some i/y influence going on)
Jewel: it depends. I think I'm more likely to use 1+ than 2-, but it's square in my fuzzy zone and depends on factors like how quickly
I'm speaking. My only association with syllable count here is the recent Terry Pratchett book with a character whose name played with the 1-syllable pronunciation. (Deliberately vague to try to avoid spoilers.)
Poem: 2, although people who use one syllable remind me of a really good English teacher of mine who pronounced it that way.
My current syllables-in-dialects concern is that I grew up in a region where caramel had three very distinct syllables -- CARE-uh-mehl -- and I now live in a region where it has two-minus -- CAR-muhl. It's sufficiently firmly set to two in the various local dialects that signs at fairs almost always advertise "carmel corn". I don't know why I've fixated on this dialectical difference instead of all the other ones, but I'd like to stop, because it makes fairs less pleasant for me.