[Magdalen] prophecy/prophesy

[Jay Weigel]

My godmother/aunt was called Rhea, pronounced REE-ah. Imagine my shock when
I moved to Tennessee and found that there the name is pronounced "Ray". She
was a bit shocked too when people tried to call her that.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, yes. zha-NAY's sister is Alyce, which is a clue around here that it is
> pronounced ah-LEASE...but not always. <grin> Lois is an old canard, not too
> common in younger (<50?> people, but can be either LOW-is or Loyce.
>
> Peace,
> Jeaux aka Jo outside of the 30/90 area
>
> > On Jun 7, 2017, at 10:37 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On a proposal to the Government of Canada (we were bidding to run
> > their student-loan system, and lost), one of my colleagues was Alice
> > Blum. On a conference call, I asked whether "AL-iss Blum" was on the
> > line, and there was a pause, after which she icily said, "It's
> > a-LEASE." Yikes. Sorry. Lesson learned: don't assume you know how to
> > pronounce the first name of a Canadian called Alice.
> >
> > Marc Hamelin was less icy and more helpful with his name; I can't do
> > the phonetics, but it's the French way, with silent H, and two
> > syllables. am-LA(n), sort of.
> >
> >> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Within my near acquaintance are three women who each spell their name
> Jeanne. One pronounces it Gene, one pronounces it Zhawn, and one pronounces
> it zha-NAY.
> >>
> >> Such is south Louisiana, where when asked if my name is Joan, or
> Joanne, I respond, "No, J-o, pronounced J-e-a-u-x" and, they get it.
> >>
> >> Peace,
> >> Jeaux
> >>
> >>> On Jun 5, 2017, at 11:23 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> And we would return the favor.
> >>>
> >>> Had a friend whose son was named Isaiah. Some old pedant leaned into
> >>> Isaiah's stroller and addressed him as Eye-zye-uh. The child's
> reaction was
> >>> loud & immediate.
> >>> -M, who also knows many people who pronounce Rachel "racial" and
> others who
> >>> say "rahk-kell"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Monday, June 5, 2017, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone here who tried to say "eye-zay-uh" would be assumed to be
> >>>> mispronouncing the word and would be likely corrected afterwards
> >>>>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>