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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 00:55

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:41

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kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:40

Alias.
maybe Alius! Let's have 6 pages on the various merits of Alias vs Alius. none of us have anything better to do obviously!

Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:40

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hatrick · 19/04/2008 17:38

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kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:38

alius is great, ali even better (my name)! And Ali is Ila backwards. Which I swear I didn't realise until one of my students pointed out what a narcissist I am.

Have Ila for sure. Just don't tell anyone else!

BubbaAndBump · 19/04/2008 17:36

Thing is, there aren't many rules to the prounciation of words in the English language ~ that's the joy of our beautiful language. I could give many examples, but I won't bore you...

3andnomore · 19/04/2008 17:35

see, I would pronounce Alias A-leye-as....well,but then, I am a thick german, me....but that is always how I thought it is pronounced.....oooops

Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:34

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Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:34

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VictorianSqualor · 19/04/2008 17:33

BubbandBump, it's just that she is purposely misspelling a name, and in a way that goes against the English language so won't actually say what she wants it to say iyswim.
Like I said time and again, it's her choice, but you see tons of these threads on here complaining that names get spelt and/or pronounced 'wrong' when actually it's being spelt/pronounced right and the person complaining is actually wrong.
There are rules to language, making up a spelling for a name and saying 'it says that' isn't that simple. It says what it says, whether you want to read it differently or not.
But makingdo has said she is happy to correct people so that's fine, I just hope her Dd is happy too.
(btw I know as a Lorraine spelled 'Lorayn')

Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:32

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BubbaAndBump · 19/04/2008 17:31

lol, true (btw I had meant repeating herself in life with the pronunciation, but yes, on here too I suppose!)

Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:31

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Blandmum · 19/04/2008 17:31

Alias is pronounced, Thisisnotarealnamebutmeansapseudonym

3andnomore · 19/04/2008 17:29

well, Bubba, but that is what ya get for posting on nmaethreads

kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:29

BTW. I think Zebedee for a middle name is fab. And how is Alias pronounced? Can't be arsed to look back through 5 pages to find out!

BubbaAndBump · 19/04/2008 17:28

I can't believe how many of you are worried for Makingdo having to repeat herself. If she's okay with it, and she kind of sounds like she might just be, then surely that's that?!

hatrick, hat off to you for teaching reception! I'm secondary and couldn't handle a class full of littl'uns!

kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:27

You can have it. We live miles away! I would be honoured.

Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:27

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kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:26

Fanks Makin Do. I likes it too!

kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:26

I meant Ila is pronounced Eye-la, not Aye-la.
Sorry I am an idiot, and noone probably cares anyway.

Makingdo · 19/04/2008 17:25

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kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:24

Oh, and everyone spells it Isla but so what.

kaballie · 19/04/2008 17:22

On the Isla/Ayla note my DD is 11 months and is called Ila (Pronounced Aye-la) and noone has ever mispronnounced it...Yet. Apart from the chap who called her Ill-er and then was very embarrassed!

Ila is the Indian Sanskrit way of spelling it and it means earth or water.

3andnomore · 19/04/2008 17:22

thing is, she will receive many cards with her name spelled wrong, because people will just think it's spelled Isla, lol...
but again, you cna have the smae problems with common names...Clare forinstance being one of them....have a niece of that name, and I still can never remember if it's Clare, Clair or Claire, lol