Quick question about names.

[baratron]

Apropos of nothing, I find myself wondering how to pronounce the following two names, which I've only seen in print and not heard out loud:
Halle, as in Halle Berry, Oscar-winning actress.
Ciara, as in stonehan's little daughter.

I don't know how to read phonemes, and I'm not sure they translate easily into ascii, so please use descriptions of the sounds, trying to keep them fairly accent-free. e.g. "a as in apple" is ok, but "o as in Bob" is right out :)

Comments

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I found a really interesting resource!

http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/sayhow.html

They say: Berry, Halle (HAL-é)

[ A, a = pat, marry; É, é = evil, reel ]

So I'd read it to rhyme with Sally.