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in reply to a message by Liala
I bet many parents were looking for a more "feminine" version of Tyler, or combining the names Tyler and Sky into what they thought was a new name and just stumbled on something that happened to be a Dutch surname as well.
Also, I wouldn't consider Skyla and Skylar the same name. You'd have to have a pretty thick Long Island accent to pronounce them the same way!
Also, I wouldn't consider Skyla and Skylar the same name. You'd have to have a pretty thick Long Island accent to pronounce them the same way!
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Skylar/Skyla
I have no idea where Liala is from, but almost everyone in Australia and New Zealand, and the great majority of speakers in England, would pronounce Skyla and Skylar the same as they have non-rhotic accents just like the "think Long Island" (or Boston) accent you are thinking of. :)
I have no idea where Liala is from, but almost everyone in Australia and New Zealand, and the great majority of speakers in England, would pronounce Skyla and Skylar the same as they have non-rhotic accents just like the "think Long Island" (or Boston) accent you are thinking of. :)
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Eek, now I'm being one of those people who assume everyone on the internet is American (North American?) I can see how Skyla would be a perfectly reasonable respelling in a country where no one would enunciate the final r anyway.
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