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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 5, 2016 21:56:34 GMT
Funny...I just had a conversation with my youngest where he said that he is thinking that when he moves off to college of having people start calling him by his middle name. Not because his first name is unusual or easily mispronounced, but because is middle name is more uncommon. Apparently is first name is too common for him (there were four of them in his elementary class-small school) and his middle name is WAY cooler. When I chose his name, I was going for a more traditional name and his middle name is a family last name. Just goes to show you, you can't win. (We won't even talk about my name-it is so common that you can pretty much accurately guess my age because it's popularity cycle and my middle name is Lynn like every other southern girl ever born. I was born to be average. ) LOL, I have a very common first name too and there were always several of us (or a variation) in pretty much every class I was ever in up until college when I was going to school with people 6-8 years younger than me. I had the difficult last name growing up that no one could ever get right to save their souls. I very happily traded it for a much easier surname when I married DH. DH and I gave our kid an easy to say, easy to spell traditional name that you would have to work hard to try to muck up. It wasn't top ten or even top 20, so not common enough to have multiple kids with that name in school. I think there is a wide middle ground between having a top five name and something made up (creative spellings included). It's so nice to tell someone your name and NOT have to spell it, say it and spell it again--and STILL have everyone get it wrong. Life is hard enough.
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Post by PNWMom on Jun 5, 2016 23:20:53 GMT
...and I am surprised by how some of you would pronounce Elijah. I think of the actor Elijah Woods, and he pronounces it uh-lie-zha, not ee-lie-juh. This has actually been a name we have discussed far before baby thinking times because my mom is hearing impaired and can't do certain sounds--like the CH in chef, or in Massachusetts. She can't hear/do the 'zha' sound well, either. She got a cochlear implant a few years ago and we worked with her a lot on those sounds, using Elijah Woods as one example (she has liked him since he was a little kid actor). Elijah pronunciationI just watched a clip with him being interviewed where they repeatedly say his name while playing an advice game called Would Elijah Wood They are saying it the way you say it is not pronounced and the way everyone else is saying it is pronounced. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ftHpky-Kl3UI watched your clip and the way Seth Meyer says his name *is* what I am saying: uh-lie-zha or zsa or however you want to put the end of it. Not 'juh' (although I do hear in the clip that Elijah does have more of a hard 'juh' sound when he says his own name. I have the LOTR movies special features as my go to background noise when being crafty, and when they speak about him there are a variety of pronunciations for his name, which I chalk up to people having English and New Zealand and Australian and a variety of American accents. Not many clips on there of him saying his own name. But the pronunciation I use is definitely one of them).
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 6, 2016 0:41:10 GMT
When I listen to the Seth Meyers clip, I hear it as e-LYE-juh, especially when he says his own name.
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