How is Taaylaa pronounced?

[MamaLazarou]

Came across this name the other day and can't imagine how it is spoken. Tylaaah? Tar-y-lar?

[emmanumber3]

Mill-ear then . Delightful, and I'm sure it'll never be mispronounced at all.

And the other name, I would think, is a "creative" spelling of Taylor. No doubt designed to make the name "uww-neek".

[Bubbaluv]

Like Taylor but with a very broad Australian accent. Think Irene from Home and Away calling Taylor across the playground.

[IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat]

I pronounce it to be fucking awful.

[mathanxiety]

Would Myleah be Miley? (by a huge stretch of the imagination)
Or Haelym spelled backwards?

Taaylaa is pronounced Tiaamii, right?

[EauRouge]

"but 'Tarr-y-laar' sounded a bit wrong."

Unless they are pirates.

[FannyPriceless]

There is a very simple explanation for this horror. When their daughter was born, the 'A' key on their keyboard was a bit sticky, and they have simply been too embarassed to admit this to anyone since.

[hermionestranger]

Going back to myleah would it be pronounced milia? As in milkspots.

[mollymole]

it is pronounced 'my parent(s) are twats'

[MamaLazarou]

"OP, do you actually know these people? Or is it just a random name you saw written somewhere?"

It is the name of a friend-of-a-friend's daughter. It was the double 'a' that confused me. When I see 'aa', I imagine it as sounding like 'arr', but 'Tarr-y-laar' sounded a bit wrong.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Taylor isn't to my taste but it is a name. Taaylaa, on the other hand, is an explosion in the Alphabet Soup factory.

[hadagutsfull]

I've got a relative called Tayla

[BulletWithAName]

I like the name Taylor. Spelt Taylor of course

[Nagini]

We had a thread on this before. I love U-neek spellings.

My favourite was Typhane.

Tiffany. FFS.

No one was slating the name Taylor, just the desperate re-spelling of it.

[BulletWithAName]

Spelling a name for example with a K instead of a C doesn't bother me, it's just deliberate and elaborate misspellings which look a bit silly. Like...I don't know, Olivia being spelt Ollyvier.

[SoupDragon]

Taylor is not to my taste but [shrug] Tayla looks prettier, Taaylaa looks utterly daft. IMO. Unless it is your culture to put multiple double A combos in words.

Of course, if it turns out that it is, in fact, an name then there is nothing more to be said.

[BulletWithAName]

I'm not offended aliceliddell! I just think that saying that a name is 'made up' is stupid because all names arfe made up, they didn't just appear out of the ether

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[aliceliddell]

It was a feeble attempt at sick humour. Sorry to those offended. I was going to comment that the word 'chav' and all the Vicki Pollard, Catherine Tate's Lauren etc all came out at the same time that 'the poor' were all seen as benefit scroungers and demonised. I've got more dislike of 'original' spellings actually.

[alowVera]

Well that's my girls names thrown out of the window. Not spelt conventionally and slightly made up. ps, not Chavvy names I swear.

[BulletWithAName]

I'm not a fan of creative spelling by the way either, I'm just saying.

[BulletWithAName]

Every name is made up though. How else would we get new names?

[SoupDragon]

personally, I'd say that anything made up and spelt creatively is just plain shit.

[SoupDragon]

No, anything that is made up and spelt creatively is "chavvy" in MN land.

[BulletWithAName]

Too right usual. If it isn't something like Araminta or Wilberforce it's 'downmarket'!

[usualsuspect]

anything thats not an old man/ ladies name is seen as chavvy in MNland