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 :)

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[baratron.livejournal.com]

hehe - well, my Chris McCormack is the guitarist in 3 Colours Red and Grand Theft Audio, two British pop-punk bands that you may have heard of - GTA had a couple of songs on the soundtracks of various films last year and also on the PS2 game Gran Turismo 3. It must be a reasonably common name - I discovered when I did a Google search last year that there are three famous Chris McCormacks (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=baratron&itemid=37453) - as well as the one I am talking about, there's also an Australian athlete and a techno DJ.

I still do searches for the name of an ex I haven't seen for getting on for 7 years. I just wonder what happened to him. I know where all my other exes are - some of them I'm still friends with - but this one disappeared without trace and I can't stop wondering where he is.