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To ask how you pronounce Amelia

389 replies

moonlightmile · 19/04/2017 03:08

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??

OP posts:
Batgirlspants · 19/04/2017 09:08

Never heard it the first way sounds daft snd posh Grin

Second way around here in the midlands.

Think you just have to get used to it

Batgirlspants · 19/04/2017 09:09

Brummie way A Miliaaaa. Grin

JustBeingJobless · 19/04/2017 09:11

The second way. I know no fewer than 6 Amelias and they all pronounce it this way.

Graceflorrick · 19/04/2017 09:11

OP, it IS pronounced 'Ahh-me-lee-ah'.

HomityBabbityPie · 19/04/2017 09:12

Never heard it said the first way, sounds posh and awful.

I know three Amelias and they all pronounce it A-meel-iya

Ecureuil · 19/04/2017 09:12

I can't turn it into 3 syllables! I'm trying!

AmysTiara · 19/04/2017 09:12

2nd way for me. Ameeleeuh. I'm near Liverpool.

Never heard it pronounced the first way.

Specialmeasuresofgin · 19/04/2017 09:14

Second way here also and have known a lot of Amelia and lived in four different counties.

FetchezLaVache · 19/04/2017 09:16

Not quite the first way, but there is a girl at DS's school of Polish origin who pronounces it "A-mell-ia" (to rhyme with "smellier", but thankfully this doesn't seem to have occurred to the other children).

ChasedByBees · 19/04/2017 09:17

I opened this thinking there was only one way to pronounce it. I've also never heard the first option.

Nairsmellsbad · 19/04/2017 09:20

Isn't this just a factor of OP having a different mother-tongue with different vowel sounds? I would also pronounce it the second way but if somebody wanted it pronounced differently I'd certainly make an effort.

MerryMarigold · 19/04/2017 09:21

I am from South East and say it a combination of the 2 I guess.

Definitely Uh (not 'Ah') - Mee-lee-uh. I have only ever heard it pronounced with 'uh' at the beginning NOT 'ah' (like Aha)

JennyOnAPlate · 19/04/2017 09:23

Ah mil ya sounds like I'm putting on a dodgy Australian accent Grin

I've only ever heard it pronounced the second way.

Vagndidit · 19/04/2017 09:23

Eeks. The second way would be quite common in the southern US, particularly Texas. I may have some personal knowledge of that one...

Vagndidit · 19/04/2017 09:25

Sorry, meant to say the first way is very wrong Southern US. Ah-mee-lee-uh seems to be the correct way.

EC22 · 19/04/2017 09:26

In broad Glaswegian it'd be the first pronunciation.

GaelicSiog · 19/04/2017 09:28

OP I'm with you. Amelja/Emilja is a name in parts of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

Branleuse · 19/04/2017 09:30

2nd way

SoupDragon · 19/04/2017 09:32

A-MEE-lee-a with short A sounds.

DesertSky · 19/04/2017 09:34

Sorry but I would assume it's pronounced a-me-lee-ah

DesertSky · 19/04/2017 09:35

Or rather a-me-lee-uh with uh sound at end as opposed to ah

RainbowPastel · 19/04/2017 09:36

Second way. I have never heard it pronounced the first way. It is very popular here. There are 25 in my Dd1's year and 23 in Dd2's year at secondary school.

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 19/04/2017 09:39

2nd one

TheDowagerCuntess · 19/04/2017 09:41

This reminds me of a Danielle that I went to school with.

Apparently it want Dan-i-elle, it was Dan-yelle.

TheDowagerCuntess · 19/04/2017 09:43

*wasn't Dan-i-elle