quote:Originally posted by Jon Boy: I thought she said it was "irk-some."
Veddy cute. <grin>
It's lee-EHL. I thought about writing it as Li-El, but that sounds Kryptonian. I thought about putting an accent mark over the "e", but that seemed pretentious, and I bet most people would miss it anyway. Li'el might possibly work, but what the hell, you know?
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quote:Originally posted by Raia: I had no idea you were Israeli, starLisa!! I have a friend named Liel.
What's funny is that when I decided on Liel, I'd never heard of the name. Not as a first name, and not as a last name. I thought I made it up. But Hebrew is like that.
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I gotta tell you, the way you indicate you pronoune it is the way I would have guessed. Maybe it helps that I've had exposure to a whole lotta names that are not standard fare? Or maybe it's that whole Canadian thing we've got going? I dunno. It just doesn't seem that difficult.
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quote:Originally posted by Goody Scrivener: So* I wanna know how Grcywycz (or however it was spelled) is pronounced. oh, NELL!!!!
Lol, Goody.
I still don't know! She said it too fast (three times) for me to catch it. But I should see her in class on Friday, and if I can pin her down without making a fuss, I'll ask her to say it again. Slowly.
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: I gotta tell you, the way you indicate you pronoune it is the way I would have guessed. Maybe it helps that I've had exposure to a whole lotta names that are not standard fare? Or maybe it's that whole Canadian thing we've got going? I dunno. It just doesn't seem that difficult.
Could be the lot-of-names thing. I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago after the elevator accident, and the nurse was Hungarian, or something like that. She got it right the first time.
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quote:Originally posted by Jonathan Howard: Put a diaresis over the "e", it should sort things out.
<laugh> Yeah, because so many people understand what a diaresis is for.
Nell, it looks like an umlaut. Two horizontal dots over a letter. Like in Noel. The diaresis over the "e" in that word tells you that the vowel is to be prounced separately. It's a little like the Hebrew aleph or the Arabic alif.
Jonathan, I didn't mention that option, because I didn't think most people would know what it was. Also, it wouldn't help me on the Internet, because I can't type an "e" with a diaresis.
But good suggestion. <grin>
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But I should see her in class on Friday, and if I can pin her down without making a fuss, I'll ask her to say it again. Slowly.
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