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??

1 millionth vote for A-me-lee-ya

At prep school, 50 odd years ago, we had two Julias, and because we were all a bit posh they were definitely Jool-ya, not Ju-lee-a. It's just the accent, upper middle class as opposed to lower middle class. I daresay they're both Ju-lee-as now

Second way for me too. I've never heard it pronounced the first way and I've lived in many parts of the UK

Billionth vote for a-mee-lee-ya

Never heard a-meel-ya

What about Sophia?! Sophie-a? Suffphere?

I grew up in Lancashire but have long lived in the south and have always "talked posh".

I can't even imagine an "RP" way of saying the first version. As a result, I'm inclined to think they're not really distinct pronunciations. Apart from the stressing or not of the third syllable, most of the difference is just the accent of the person saying the name.

My favourite shorter version of Ah-mee-lee-ya is 'Mia'.

If I heard somebody say the first version, I'd assume they were saying Emilia.

2nd version. 4 syllables

I can't help but laugh. You've been saying it wrong the whole time. Hilarious! But that's ok, she can rock it like that. She'll just explain her parents were special ;)

I think OP had now realised she's been saying her daughters name wrong her whole life
Reminds me of a girl I went to school with called Megan. Simple you think... nope. it wasn't pronounced 'meg+an' it was pronounced "meee-gan".
And she'd get annoyed about people like supply teachers reading the register as meg+an!!

I once interviewed a woman called Janine.

I shook her hand and said "Nice to meet you Ja - neen"

She said "No - It's Jannin"

She didn't get the job

Reminds me of a girl I went to school with called Megan. Simple you think... nope. it wasn't pronounced 'meg+an' it was pronounced "meee-gan". And she'd get annoyed about people like supply teachers reading the register as meg+an!! hmm

I know a Mee-gan, she's Australian, I just assumed it was an Aussie thing! She's in her 30's.

Definitely Ah meel - ee yah here, so your second one! Never heard anyone say it your first way, and I know a few Amelias of school age.

Maybe you're comparing dialects or accents?

I mean, it's Am E Li A, the E is there. Perhaps in your accent you blend the E into other sounds.

Darcy might sound like Darcy in the South, but where I'm from it could sound more like Dar-SEH. Not a new pronunciation or a variant - just the accent.

A-mee-lee-ya. It would sound weird pronounced any other way. Sorry OP.

Am-ee-lee-ya. Never heard it pronounced any other way. I'm in London.

Second way and I'm northern and have a Yorkshire accent.

I'm sorry to tell you you have been pouncing your daughters name incorrectly all thus time!

I live in the south east and know several Amelias- everyone I know prounounces A mee leea. That is how it's spelt?
The only alternative I know is Emilia which is pronounced E-Mill-ia

I know a hundred Amelias, OK 4, and they are all A-mee-li-ah.

Second way, 4 syllables. It's my middle name.

I have only ever heard it pronounced the second way.

I know this name as either Ah-meely-ah or Ah-meel-ya.

The former when saying the name in full (i.e. when they are naughty!) and the latter when saying the name in a hurry (it shrinks to 3 syllables).

The second way.

I've always pronounced it Ah- mee - Lee -a. I've never heard it pronounced the other way tbh