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[–] AugustMetronome 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious: would you pronounce Leila as: Lay-lah Or Lie-lah I've seen it pronounced both ways with the same spelling, and have a relative named Leila and pronounced Lie-lah.

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lay-lah. At least that's how we pronounce it here (the Balkans). It's a Muslim name around here, Bosnian. But, I don't really give AF, I like the name (not Muslim BTW).

My son's name is Ilin, which is pronounced Eileen in English, and mine is Yane (written as Jane), so you could imagine setting up a date with Eileen and Jane in the US and two guys show up 😂.