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Help[Opinions] Re: Isla
in reply to a message by ClementineFox7
If I didn't know, I guess I'd say either Iss-la or Ees-la.
But I have known that it's like island for as long as I've known the name, and I don't think I ever had to guess at it.
I would pronounce Aila to rhyme Kayla. But, I'm easily taught. I was taught to pronounce Leah as LAY-uh because I know one, and now I struggle with Leah pronounced LEE-uh.
I always want to say Ceridwen KEHR-id-wen, but then I learned it's keh-RID-wen and I don't like that so much.
And there's Marsaili which looks like Mar-SAY-lee but it's supposed to approximately rhyme with parsley.
And Meredith, which is originally meh-RED-ith and a masculine name which I like as such ... some celeb named their son Meredith and I'm about 90% sure they pronounce it the girlname way, MAIR-uh-dith, which pains me terribly, it sounds so feminine like that to me. I like MAIR-uh-dith on a girl, but not on a guy.
Then there's Thalia, which has too many different pronunciations and that totally ruins it for me. THAIL-ya, THA-lee-a, Tha-LEE-a, TAHL-ya, ta-LEE-a, TAH-lee-a, tha-LYE-a, ta-LYE-a ... sheesh. Go away, name, you are too ambiguous. lol. But if I met one, I'd just learn it her way.
- mirfak
But I have known that it's like island for as long as I've known the name, and I don't think I ever had to guess at it.
I would pronounce Aila to rhyme Kayla. But, I'm easily taught. I was taught to pronounce Leah as LAY-uh because I know one, and now I struggle with Leah pronounced LEE-uh.
I always want to say Ceridwen KEHR-id-wen, but then I learned it's keh-RID-wen and I don't like that so much.
And there's Marsaili which looks like Mar-SAY-lee but it's supposed to approximately rhyme with parsley.
And Meredith, which is originally meh-RED-ith and a masculine name which I like as such ... some celeb named their son Meredith and I'm about 90% sure they pronounce it the girlname way, MAIR-uh-dith, which pains me terribly, it sounds so feminine like that to me. I like MAIR-uh-dith on a girl, but not on a guy.
Then there's Thalia, which has too many different pronunciations and that totally ruins it for me. THAIL-ya, THA-lee-a, Tha-LEE-a, TAHL-ya, ta-LEE-a, TAH-lee-a, tha-LYE-a, ta-LYE-a ... sheesh. Go away, name, you are too ambiguous. lol. But if I met one, I'd just learn it her way.
- mirfak
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