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Random BR Name Poll/Q
1) Would you pronounce Emilia and Amelia differently?
2) Do you think people would have a problem recognizing the difference?
3) Which do you like better?
Re: Random BR Name Poll/Q
1. Yes, but I am willing to be that's regional.
2. Not here it wouldn't.
3. I think "Amelia" is more common and if you said the word, most people would assume "Amelia".
Example: Where I live "Erin" and "Aaron" are two totally different sounding names. However, I learned from DH (and now from TV because I hear it all the time) that lots of the country pronounces them the same.
Yeah, being from MA, I have a lot of the differences in me too. Probably not as hard as you do, but still different. DH and I are definitely aware of Eh versus Ah but doubt most people would get it. Blah.
1. No
2. Yes
3. I prefer Amelia.
For the reason Naylon stated (and Erin and Aaron are perfect examples), just because people see it spelled differently they don't assume pronunciation is different. I would stick with the regular spelling so people could figure out how to spell it reasonably soon after hearing it.
1) Would you pronounce Emilia and Amelia differently? Yeah, sorta.
2) Do you think people would have a problem recognizing the difference? Yep.
3) Which do you like better? I like Amelia, but that's because I prefer easy names. At first look, I thought of Emilio Estevez, but then I thought Emily. I think with the first, she would be correcting people her entire life.
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Yeah, I know about the life of correction. Most places just refuse to call me by my first name; which is easier now that my last name isn't so taboo. My OB just tried to call out my first name in the waiting room for the first time in 8 months - they totally got it wrong...oh well. But at the same time, it hasn't ever been THAT obnoxious. Blah. I like the nn with Emilia better
, can't really call her Emi with Amelia.
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1. Not really.
2. Probably.
3. Amelia.
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1) Would you pronounce Emilia and Amelia differently? Yes
2) Do you think people would have a problem recognizing the difference? Yes
3) Which do you like better? Amelia (it was on my list of possibilities)
1. I wouldn't pronounce them differently
2. I want to say no... At least around here I've always seems Emilia pronounced the same as Amelia.
3. I love both- Amelia was on our list, but only because one of my really good friends is named Emilia so if felt like we'd be naming our daughter after her if we went with that spelling. I prefer Emilia for the nicknames Em, Emi & Mila though.
I would go with Amelia if that is how you are wanting it pronounced, I find myself trying too hard to figure out how to pronounce the E spelling, and completely avoiding Amelia, because, well if it were Amelia I would have spelled it that way.
Hmm, interesting. Most midwest / TV accents I've heard pronounce both closer to Air-in.
Here, it's Errrrr-in. Like "to err". and Ahhhhhrin. Like "arrow" - though maybe we say arrow differently too, lol.
if we went with Amelia, it would be Ah-Meal-yia, if we went with Emilia it would be Eh-meal-yia.
There's a part of me that doesn't care of people screw it up, people screw up my friend Sondra and call her Sandra - it's just so easy for names to get confused. I don't want my MIL to go on a teaching crusade though. She told all her friends that my name is pronounced Lor-a, as opposed to Lara (for Laura). In New England they were both just lora.
Yeah, Erin and Aaron for me growing up were Air-wren (Erin) and Err-on.
I love regional accent stuff!
I would pronounce Emilia with the EM sound Amelia with the AH sound. However, they don't sound really super different to me when said casually (without purposely trying to emphasize the em or ah sounds.) I think some people might emphasize ah-MEEL-ia vs. em-MIL-ia, too.
I would choose Amelia for simplicity for my child, but with a really common last name such as yours, that might be less of an issue. I don't think it would be that hard for people to learn to correctly pronounce Emilia.
Also, Aaron and Erin sound nearly identical to me (and I pronounce arrow the same as both of those-- air-owe.)
Emilia was my top girl name when I had Jackson. We were going to use mostly the nn of Emmie, and I still love it, however my God-sister just named her baby girl Emma so I probably won't use it now due to the similarity.
I don't pronounce them differently and I think Emilia is a pretty common alternative spelling of the name, so it's not like way out there or anything.
1. No. I pronounce both, Uh-melia.
2. Yes.
3. I prefer Amelia, for the sake of people spelling her name correctly.
1. Yes. I would pronounce Emelia with a longe e sound and Amelia with a short a sound.
2. I don't know.
3. Amelia. I've always thought it was a great name.
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