To ask how you pronounce Amelia

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DD is called Amelia. Most people I know seem to pronounce it 'ah-mil-yuh', which is how I have always said it. However, we have recently moved to a completely new area and EVERYONE here pronounces it 'ah-mee-lee-yah', which imo sounds so so annoying. I know I am probably being pretentious not liking the way people say it, but I never realised it was pronounced like that!

Is this the normal way and I've always been saying it wrong??

Ah Mil Yuh.

But probably the whole Southeast Asia will prononce it as A mel ya.

2nd way here too.
I only opened the thread to hear how on earth else it could be pronounced.

Fucking hell.

I am that people are telling the op she's been pronouncing her own dds name wrong!!

It has been established that most people pronounce it the second way, and indeed most of that people she meets will do so too. However, her own mother can pronounce it whichever way she wants.

Rude.

Second way for me too

OP asked how we would pronounce name Brutus- why call us rude for answering the question??

my mum is Amelia - we pronounce it the second way. A friends daughter is Amelia as well - also pronounced the second way. Nicknamed Milly.

The rude bit in my opinion is everyone who is saying "Sorry op, you twit! but you've been saying your daughter's name wrong all this time!"

uh-meeeeeeel-ya

? What about Portia and Ophelia?

Ah-me-lee-ah. (Scotland.)

? What about Portia and Ophelia?

Pore-sha and O-fee-lee-yah (and for the record, I say A-mee-lee-yah).

Portia is Porsha and Ophelia is four syllables: oh-fee-lee-ah. I have only heard Americans pronounce Ophelia as oh-feel-ya

Ed Ball's sister is called Ophelia.

It doesn't work the second way.

Balls'

My dd name and we prenounce it the econd way

Ophelia Balls? 😂

Three syllables here. Friends granddaughter is called Amelia, pronounced A-Meel-ya. Why the extra syllable?

Another A-Meel-Ya here and I have never heard of it being pronounced with four syllables. The first few pages of this thread were a mystery to me. A-Mel-ee-a seems like a weirdly literal reading of the name to me.

Also utterly surprised at people saying Cecelia and Daniella etc don't have a "ya" sound but instead an extra syllable. In my defence of the "ya"s, I offer Purcell's Ode on St Cecelia's day which was written by a British composer in the seventeenth century and where Cecelia definitely has only three syllables.

The "ee-ah" ending to me sound like one of those oddly sophisticated voicemails that try to pronounce the person's name and it ends up mangled.

I've never heard A-meel-ya or Ophel-ya, they sound really mangled.

Also utterly surprised at people saying Cecelia and Daniella etc don't have a "ya" sound but instead an extra syllable.

How do you pronounce the name Lia? Leah or L'ya?

I think that, in reality, the difference between Ya and EE-a at the end is very subtle.

I second the second way!

My cousin is called Amelia, as is one of my friends. Only ever heard it pronounced the second way xxxx

second way.