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How do you pronounce ELOISE?

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Hope88 · 24/02/2011 14:55

Any suggestions?

If any of you have Eloise, do people often mispronounce it? Or do people call them as Elle or Ellie? Are your girls happy to be Eloise???

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Bonsoir · 25/02/2011 08:40

Reshape - Eloise is spelled Héloïse in French:

hé = EH

lo = LO

ise = EEZ

gillybean2 · 25/02/2011 08:42

el-oh-ease

ChildofIsis · 25/02/2011 08:44

My dd is Eloise, it's a french version of louise.
We've never encountered any mispronunciations.

DD loves being the only one in a school of 250!

thumbwitch · 25/02/2011 08:49

ooo Bonsoir - how did you do that i with the double dot? Did you c&p it or do you know a clever keyboard trick? Or have you just got a French keyboard?

Bonsoir · 25/02/2011 08:50

I've got a French keyboard Smile - not very unusual for someone who lives in France and types French all the time!

thumbwitch · 25/02/2011 08:57

yes, I thought that might be the case. Poo. Grin

reup · 25/02/2011 09:00

Google the damned and eloise. Then listen to the song!

If I had had a girl she would have been eloise

Bonsoir · 25/02/2011 09:06

é è à â ê î ô û ë ï

Now you can copy and paste!

Honeydragon · 25/02/2011 09:15

Don't listen to the Original of Eloise by Barry Ryan it's not as cool.

thumbwitch · 25/02/2011 09:15

Thank you! :)

Eloise1234 · 03/12/2013 17:20

As you can see my name is Eloise. I was born in the 70s and I am fairly used to being 'the only one'. That has never really bothered me.

My name is pronounced "Eh - Lo - eze" in English and "Eh - loh - eeze" in French. I actually use the double dot above my 'i' in my name to clarify pronunciation and an acute accent can be added to the first E. My parents chose to drop the H from the name to avoid mis-pronounciation also.

Mis spelling are very, very common - Elouise, Ellouise, Elloweze, Ella-Louise and even worse Elaine (obviouisly my name does not exist for some)

Some people mis- pronounce it "EEE-louse" (like house) and "Ee loise" (like noise) and "El - whaz"

My nicknames are Elle and Ellie and I get a variety of spellings on those. That's totally fine, it rather indicates at what stage of my life people have met me.

Rowboat · 05/12/2013 15:15

I long for an Eloise. It's my all time favourite name but dh vetoed as it doesn't go too well with our surname. Though in hindsight DD isn't an Eloise. And we've settled on another if dc2is a girl. But I can't help but feel it a bitSad

ThursdayLast · 05/12/2013 15:20

My sis is called this, we pronounce is

El-oh-eeze

I'm jealous of her name x

LoopyLobster · 05/12/2013 15:31

I have an Eloise too, and pronounce it the correct way, as most have explained upthread. She does get called Ellie though too.

Twit · 05/12/2013 15:51

I am one and I was boron mid 70s and thought my parents were pretentious twats. Never ever heard of another until 5 years ago when someone shouted "Eloise get here right now " I thought she was talking to me Blush and gave a A Look.
I been Elle and Ellie and all the different spellings/pronunciations used to piss me off, but not any more.

*El-wahse

in the odd occasions in which people address me as thus, those people do not know that in my head I have flicked them hard upon the forehead and immediately prejudiced them as a pretentious twat*

Ohh, this. Grin

And yes to eloisa good and that fecking damned song. Hahaha, no, I have never heard that one before, you are truly a comedic talent. An original. But the really twatty ones try eloise and Abelard and are up their own butts.

nonmifairidere · 05/12/2013 16:01

Eeloys, obvs.

somethingchristmassy · 16/12/2013 21:58

el-oh-eeze.

It is a German name, with umlaut (two dots) over the o. Can also be Heloise. Not a French name, which would be el-wahz.

zombiesheep · 16/12/2013 22:02

El lo weeze

JanetAndRoy · 16/12/2013 22:09

L - O - E's
(Ehl - Oh - Eez)

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/12/2013 08:19

Something - it's a French name, not a German name. The dots over the i are to show that the i is pronounced separately from the o, which is why it is Ell Oh EEz and not Ell Oiz or Ell Wahz. No umlaut on the o! (Which would make its pronunciation Ell Ur Eezer.)

AntoinetteCosway · 17/12/2013 08:35

DD is Ell-oh-eeze. Or, sometimes, Weez Grin

cheeseandpineapple · 17/12/2013 08:44

I like the name but OP, sounds like you're not too sure about it, pick something both you and your husband like can pronounce!

Theas18 · 17/12/2013 08:51

Know and Eloise known as wheezy by her mates!

Sanjifair · 17/12/2013 17:45

My 7 week old is an Eloise. It has surprised ( and annoyed ) me how many mis spellings we are getting - usually Elouise. We pronounce it Eh - low - ease, so not like E- Louise as there is no ooo sound in it.

It's definitely a name that is on the up, it was 275 ish last year, but in the recent babycentre poll was 75th this year!

thegreylady · 20/12/2013 19:38

Eloise should have two dots over the i which onfirms the prononciation as Ell-oh-eeze.As in Eloise and Abelard the tragic lovers.
My cousin named her baby dd Eloise 38 years ago.She first heard the name on a tv programme called Jason and Eloise which had been on at the time.

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