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@grantinvanman Tonya is only Tahn-ia in America.  In England it would be Ton-ya, like Tania only with an O.  However, even excepting that obvious mispronunciation (or misspelling), Tonya being pronounced Tone-ya doesn’t break the rule of not using the long vowel sound if it is succeeded by a double consonant – and that is the principle rule at play here.  Bretonnia has a double N following the O which typically limits the vowel to its short sound – Bret-on-ya.  So regardless of what the convention is in terms if how people are saying it, the correct pronunciation is Bret-onn-ya.