[General] How is the name Anna read?

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Greetings,

how should I read the name Anna? With the first a as in cAt, or as in cAlf :?:
 

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This is how it's transcribed in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: ˌænə

The "a" as in "cat" is how I hear it (or the "a" in "calf" in AmE).
 

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Thank you.)
 

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Greetings,

how should I read the name Anna? With the first a as in cAt, or as in cAlf :?:

I have never heard the calf pronunciation of Anna.
 

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