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How are these pronounced: Masie & Ellysse

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IsEatBedThyme · 17/02/2016 09:31

Someone I know had a baby and has text me the name. Masie Ellysse. How would you pronounce them?

Is Masie like Macey (may-see), or like Maisie (may-zee)?

Is Ellysse like Elise, Ellis, Alice with an E not an A or something else?

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mathanxiety · 28/02/2016 22:20

Yes, it's Neeve. Shock.

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What a pity registrars can't or won't try to talk people out of youneek spellings.

Hennifer · 28/02/2016 16:34

They HAVE to reconsider. That's terrible!

squicketysquack · 28/02/2016 16:27

I know a Niamh prom Nee-yam. It's Neeve isn't it?

Tiggeryoubastard · 28/02/2016 16:22

Not sure how it's pronounced but I bet it's screeched in a supermarket. Why would you do that?

elQuintoConyo · 28/02/2016 16:18

Maisy = Daisy
Elysse = smell-fleece, accent on the fleece.

Helmetbymidnight · 28/02/2016 16:05

Why do people take against certain letters? What's wrong with the 'I' in Maisie? It's bizarre.

BendydickCuminsnatch · 28/02/2016 16:02

Ee-lice is a shame, I rather like the pron. Elise!

BendydickCuminsnatch · 28/02/2016 16:00

Macey Ellis

waxweasel · 27/02/2016 23:10

Dear God. Ee-lice? Thank christ it's a middle name.

There's a Masie pron. Maisie at my DD's nursery. I saw it on the xmas card list and couldn't bring myself to write it that way, it made my teeth itch just looking at it. So I just wrote 'to Maisie' 😊 I don't see why I should have to stoop to the parents' level of illiteracy.

Sadly, I made the wrong call for the child listed as 'Lucus'. That also made me want to cry but I figured it was much less likely to be a typo than just leaving an i out of Maisie, so I faithfully wrote Lucus in his card and then went and scrubbed myself clean. I later got an email from his mum with his name written as Lucas. So it was a typo, and she must think I'm the idiot.

crapfatbanana · 25/02/2016 19:07

EE-Lice?! What? No!

Loving Po-ebb.

I know a Sian pn See-Ann, not Sharn.

crapfatbanana · 25/02/2016 19:03

I would want to say Maisie Elise but would just ask the friend!

JessieMcJessie · 25/02/2016 15:55

I narrowly missed being named Penny-lope as my Mum thought that was how you pronounced it!

AuntJane · 25/02/2016 15:20

Jessie - Student of a teacher I know. I'd also heard of an apocryphal Australian child called "why-von-ee", who sounds as though she could be related to your Irish child.

JessieMcJessie · 25/02/2016 14:41

Aunt Jane really - actual first hand meeting or "friend of a friend"?

I once met an Irish teacher who swore to me she did supply in a class with a girl called Yvonne, pronounced "ee-von-ee".

AuntJane · 24/02/2016 23:51

Oh dear.

I once came across a Phoebe pronounced Po-ebb.

VinceNoirLovesHowardMoon · 19/02/2016 13:33

Yep they are definitely illiterate

Frazzled2207 · 19/02/2016 10:22
Hmm
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IsEatBedThyme · 19/02/2016 07:46

Met the baby yesterday, it's May-zee Ee-Lice (lice as in headlice)...!!

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nooka · 19/02/2016 04:49

If I wasn't looking to hard I'd read it as Maisie I guess.

Looking at the spelling maybe
Mass- ee or maybe Maz- ee (with short 'a's)

Looks all wrong to me!

justlikeastar · 19/02/2016 01:43

I work with an Elysse and didn't think it that bizarre. Blush

Pronounced Elise although she mainly goes by Ellie.

VinceNoirLovesHowardMoon · 18/02/2016 17:10

They are probably pronounced Maisie Elise but their parents are illiterate

GoldPlatedBacon · 17/02/2016 15:27

I would assume Macey Elise but suspect it's Maisy Elise

Fourormore · 17/02/2016 11:13

Could be Maisie or Macey but the second must be Elise.

SoupDragon · 17/02/2016 11:13

I think it's pronounced "Give me a dictionary of names" Wink

Seriously though, as others have said, I'd go for Mayzee Eleese unless told otherwise.

merseyside · 17/02/2016 11:10

mazzy, eleese