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How would you pronounce this name....

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BettyBoo246 · 05/10/2018 18:07

Alicia?

A - liss - e - a
Or
A - lee - sha

I love the first pronunciation but hate the second. Is there another way some might spell it so it’s more obviously pronounced the first way?

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Mrsnjg · 18/10/2018 21:16

My sister is Alicea. Pronounced Alice-e-a. She gets Lis for short.

overagain · 13/10/2018 21:33

A girl from school was called Alicia, and pronounced Ah-li-cee-ah. So I pronounce it like that. I pronounce Alisha, Alisha!

Lydiaatthebarre · 12/10/2018 16:41

It's Alissia. I think it began as a Latin name and was where the English name Alice came from.

Sunflower321 · 09/10/2018 13:35

Yes, Marcia, Patricia, Lucian generally pronounced as Marsha, Patrisha, Lushian etc

And Alicia Alisha.

SoupDragon · 09/10/2018 07:10

I think theAleesha pronunciation might have come over from America. Don’t they tend to pronounce Marcia as Marsha too?

It is simply a name that has two pronunciations and not that hard to deal with.

SoupDragon · 09/10/2018 07:07

Alicia = Alissia
Aleisha = Aleesha

Sunflower321 · 09/10/2018 06:58

Alyssia- Alyssia

Alicia- Alisha

AlmondVanilla · 08/10/2018 21:51

Alisha/Aleisha I would say the second way.

Alicia... Probably the first way, because I only knew one at school and hers was said that way.

Alyssa I would say Lisa with a short on the front. Again, just because someone I know pronounced it that way.

soulrider · 08/10/2018 19:34

The first way, solely because we had an audio book of Malory Towers and this was how Alicia was pronounced. No amount of watching The Good Wife has rewired my brain to think Aleesha

JennyOnAPlate · 08/10/2018 19:26

I know three (one adult, two children) and they all pronounce it Alisseea.

foxtiger · 08/10/2018 19:09

I knew the A-LISS-i-a pronunciation first and still prefer it.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 07/10/2018 16:00

I'd say it the first way, the same way as I'd pronounce Felicia, or the ending of Marcia. I just presumed she was A-liss-ia Keyes when I saw it written down, and was surprised when I heard it the first time (I also made that mistake with that well-known rapper Jay-Zed Grin).

Thesnobbymiddleclassone · 07/10/2018 15:53

Option A - always.

Sunflower321 · 07/10/2018 15:52

No, Alyssia just looks made up.

Every single name has been made up.

2doubles · 07/10/2018 15:01

The name the OP is looking for is Alyssia

Or the original pronunciation of Alicia

Yes well the 'original' pronunciation of Alicia, clearly going by this thread is going to cause mispronunciation problems isn't it. Going with Alyssia there is no chance of the A-lee-sha pronunciation.

Waterstonian · 06/10/2018 20:32

So would most be more inclined to spell it Alyssia so there’s hopefully less confusion?

No, Alyssia just looks made up.

Alicia is the nicest spelling. People will only need to be told once/twice how to pronounce it and then they'll remember.

qumquat · 06/10/2018 19:35

I'm a teacher and come across both pronunciations all the time. I will ask the girl before I say it. As long as your future dd has the confidence to correct people if they get it wrong it will be fine. Or you could spell it Alissia to avoid confusion, although it doesn't look as nice I don't think.

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BettyBoo246 · 06/10/2018 19:28

So would most be more inclined to spell it Alyssia so there’s hopefully less confusion?
My dh thinks we should go with the different but similar name of Alyssa as less “complicated” and “fussy” Confused

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finallychangedmyusername · 06/10/2018 19:16

Variations, sorry. (Hit "post" too early)

finallychangedmyusername · 06/10/2018 19:15

At first glance I'd go for A-LISS-ee-ah. But I wouldn't assume as I know so many varia

SemperIdem · 06/10/2018 18:59

seeyou

But Alicia isn’t English in origin so wouldn’t follow the same rules anyway.

Aleesha is by far the newest pronunciation of the name and also the least pretty.

blueskiesandforests · 06/10/2018 16:32

Although this name and its varients ate actually pretty names, I hate them with a passion now because I know so many young (teen to early 20s) Alicia, Alyssa, Allissia, Alisha varients, often with pronunciation which seems to go with a different spelling, and I have mortally offended a couple of them by getting them mixed up.

I don't get the young women mixed up, I know which is which perfectly well, but I cannot keep their almost but not quite identical names straight in my memory.

I wish they either had totally different names or actually identical ones.

Never give a kid a name that has too many similar variants in popular use! They'll be forever thinking people have them muddled up with someone else.

Waterstonian · 06/10/2018 16:26

With Patricia, I've only ever heard of the Patrisha pronunciation, with a short 'i' as in stick, rather than an 'ee' sound like in Aleesha.

Waterstonian · 06/10/2018 16:25

At least, at the private school I went to, I knew two girls called Alicia pronounced Alissia.

My dc go to a comp in a more ethnically & financially diverse area, and there are one or two Alicias pronounced Aleesha among their friends.

Sunflower321 · 06/10/2018 16:24

Is it the same with Patricia? The class thing?