AnA
LenA
SymmetrA (and SatyA)
AngelA
D.VA (and HanA)
OrisA
PharAH
SombrA (edit: OliviA)
ZaryA
MoirA
Brigitte (pronounced “bridge yeet AH”)
Why are so many women have “ah?”
AND ALSO
ZenyattA
IS FEMALE CONFIRMED?!
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I’m not sure what this is Ah bout.
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MicrEEEE
GenJEEEEE
MercEEEE
BrigEEEE
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n o y o u d i d n o t
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I main Micree
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Yeah its pretty much all of them. I thought Brigette finally broke the trend until I heard how to pronounce her name. Almost every female I know in real life doesn’t end in Ah lol
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I’d like a double MicReeb and a large diet coke.
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That’s it, Jelly is dead now😂
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Sounds like a lotta HooplAH if you know what I’m talking about.
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It is a common thing for several languages to have a bunch of female names that end with an “ah” sound. That’s the case for almost every women I know now that I think of it, including myself.
For a second I remembered two women I know with names that end on “en” and “y”, but then I remembered that both of them have two names and their second name ends with an “ah” too.
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It’s a common theme for feminine names/words to end in A, and I’m sure it carried over subconsciously among the team when choosing those characters’ aliases as well.
Don’t forget Hana, Satya, and Katya.
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Zarya’s name is Alexandra if I remember right
I find it perfectly natural, in my language about 98% of all female name end in an “ah” sound.
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Im calling the police
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lol should I remove lenny?
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
It’s because generally speaking, vowels are feminine and consonants are masculine.
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You can blame the Romans for this trend. Latin tended to end feminine words with A’s and masculine with O’s. This trend propagated through most of Europe through the Romance languages.
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Ancient Indo-european language users came up with this convention, that ending words with “ah” makes them sound feminine. Now a lot of modern languages carry that legacy.
A way to convey more information in compact form. For example, when you hear name Athena, you suspect that it’s probably not a dude. Just because it sounds that way.
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Too late the police have been contacted weewooooo
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If this part of your post is serious:
Lots of languages identify female names by a “a” ending and male by “o” ending.
Example: Mario, Maria, Angelo, Angela, you can easily say which of those are male or females names
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