Message: "Viola" - Behind the Name

Viola

by Melissa (guest)

6/6/2008, 9:22 AM

Hi,

Is VIE-la a correct pronunciation for the name Viola? That's how Gwyneth Paltrow's character's name was pronounced on Shakespeare in Love but this site doesn't show it as a pronunciation.

Thanks!

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- penguiny7 +3

6/6/2008, 10:57 AM

I've never seen Shakespeare in Love, but this site has VIE-o-la listed as another pronunciation. Maybe that's what they're saying, but when you say it fast, it just sounds like VIE-la.

- aquamarina

6/8/2008, 1:41 PM

Actually, this site has "vie-O-la" listed as the other pronunciation, as if the stress was on the second syllable. Of course, it's like you have typed, "VIE-o-la", with the stress o nthe first syllable. Which sounds almost identical to "Vie-la" when I say it at least (I'm English).

I used to think it was "Veeyola" like the instrument, which I still think is prettier!

- Siri (guest) +1

6/6/2008, 2:17 PM

Yup.

It's VIE-o-la, never heard it as VIE-la and I watched the movie repeatedly.

- Dot (Spider from Mars)

6/11/2008, 12:46 AM

Yeah. My teachers keep deciding it's educational, so I have watched it many a time. In that movie, her character is named VIE-o-la.

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