How do you pronounce Prince Louis name

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Trival i know, but the radio station i'm listening to this morning keeps pronoucing it Lew-is (as in the Tv dectective) and its really anmoying me because its Lou-ee (as in walsh or tomlinson) isn't it?

Now i know there is some confusion about how you pronounce Eugenie's name wether its eu- JANE-y or Eu- Gene-y and prince Harry's name is some what of a throw bavk to how they would have pronounced Henry in the 15c.

So I'm wondering if i've missed something and the Palace have actally said its pronouced Lew-is rather than the lou-ee pronoucation that would normally assoccated with the name.

They do that often , saying it Lewis when you are all right and its Lou ee. Boy at a project my son goes too came home with him once and he said "Mum this is Lewis" . When they had a presentation and the DCs names were printed , it is spelt Louis .

Diminutive names: www.behindthename.com/glossary/view/diminutive
Although it doesn’t mention Harry

Interesting about the diminutive .

Odd one I found though was my own grandfather was named John, but all his life known as Jack. I thought they were two seperate names ? Don't matter lol , just find it rather bizarre .

Jack was traditionally a diminutive/informal name for John - though now more usually given as an independent name.

Yes,the Jack/John thing is odd isn't it?

You're right

Oh I see. Thanks @LarkDescending .

Ah ha @DameDiazepam (love your user name)

Harry is called Henry, Harry is a nickname.

It’s lew-ee. Lewis is always Lewis, anyone who spells it Louis is wrong.

Of course it is Lou...ee

Lewis is spelt Lewis

There’s a tendency now for parents to give their child only the diminutive - think of all the Alfies, Freddies and Evies. My ds is generally known by the diminutive of his name, but I would never have deprived him of having the option of using his full moniker to sound grander should the need arise.

My grandmother's second name was Eugénie, after the French Empress, for reasons that never became clear to me. She always wrote it with the accent on the 'e' and pronounced it with the emphasis on the second syllable.

Incidentally I might have ended up being called Eugenie. My parents were just about to call my sister Elizabeth, after my mum's mother, until my dad pointed out that if they had a second daughter his mother would be mortally offended if she wasn't called after her. As they really didn't want a daughter called either Eugénie or Gladys, which was her first name, they called my sister Alison instead.

Louis Smith pronounces his name "Lewis" so all the posters adamant that Louis cannot be pronounced Lewis are wrong

I will just squeeze in this: Baby Duchess arrives tomorrow 24th.
Girl😊😊

'proNUNciation'!!!!!!!! Please.

Loo-Ee

The royals do like different pronunciations though

Eugenie - You-Jenny (most people would say You-Genie)
Mia - My-Ah (most people would say Me-Ah)
Lena - Lay-Nah (most people would say Lean-Ah)

So I can kind of understand why people might wonder.

sorry, should be Sussex!!!!

@GiftyWifty

According to Hello, Mia Tindall’s name is pronounced the usual way.

*and in an english accent that may well have been "an-ri' drop the n, becones ah-ri which becomes Harry.

I always thought harry was an odd shortening of Henry, but then when i found out it would have sounded more like that i just presumed thats where the shortening came from*

yes, this is where Harriet comes from too - English pronunciation of Henriette (basically Aw-ree-ET).

Loo-eee.
He is a beautiful baby, his 1st birthday picture made me smile widely. ❤

@LarkDescending I heard it on the news a few times (around the birth of their second) as My-Ah, but I see from THIS you are indeed correct.

prince Harry's name is some what of a throw bavk to how they would have pronounced Henry in the 15c.

Harry is a diminutive term for Henry in the same ways Richard is Dick, or Sandy is Alexander, or Daisy is Margaret, nothing to do with pronumciation.

Agreed bertrand, also the light is behind him in one of the pictures and it looks like it's taken with a smart phone. Not trying to be mean, but isn't she some budding photographer?

These posh girls are always some sort of photographer ime.

Does it matter?

I always think of Hal, which I love as a name, as a shortening of Henry and Harry as a diminutive of Harold, and obviously I'm wrong.

It's a long while since I read Henry V, but didn't they use both Harry and Hal for him? And called him Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1 and 2? And wasn't Henry VIII called both Bluff Harry and Bluff Hal.

Anyway I've gone off at a tangent as that's got nothing to do with P Louis.