How would you pronounce...

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Liselotte?

It's German - I live in Germany, married to a German and am wondering if dd would have a nightmare telling people how to pronounce it all the time if we ever moved back to the UK... (and for that matter if anyone would know how to pronounce it when we announce her birth via email!)

Thank you!

Liz-eh-lot? I must admit I don't know, that's just hazarding a guess! I would have thought most people in UK would ask how to pronounce based on that spelling.

LEES-uh-LOTT-uh (trying to think how to represent a voiced final e.

Beautiful name. I would have thought the chances of it becoming either Lizzie or Lottie in the UK are relatively high if that is a problem.

Leezeh-lotteh?

Lee-zeh-lot-eh

LEES-uh-LOTT-uh

Pretty much like the others Leeza Lottee or Leeza lotta

Leesa-lotta?

The same as everyone else... I don't think it's particularly clear - I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that it's pronounced completely different!

Hurrah! (And wow you're all high speed!) You've basically all got it right - Leez-ah Lott-ah - which makes me very happy as I wasn't expecting that at all! Thank you all very much

Yup, I would have pronounced it the way you said.

It's lovely, btw.

I'd say Lisa-lot before I knew it was German, in which case I'd have said Lisa-Lotta.

Thank you

Leezl-lotuh beautiful name!

Leisel - lot

I'd pronounce it like you say it, OP.

I'd pronounce it however you told me it was pronounced, you won't have to tell people more than once usually.
It's a lovely name. I have to tell people how to pronounce my name all the time, and it's helped me never hindered me. The weird MN status who seems to be that people in life will be hard done by having to spell/pronounce their names. Whereas for me it's been the opposite

Like all names it will sound slightly different when said outside of its native land.

'The weird MN status who seems to be that people in life will be hard done by having to spell/pronounce their names. Whereas for me it's been the opposite'

It's not a 'weird' MN thing. Some people find it irritating being asked to spell their name five times a day whereas others won't find this at all irritating.

Leez-a-lotta

Thank you everyone! (and I'm rubbish at spelling things phonetically so I totally agree with you VocationalGoat - it's a name from my husband's family ).

This is like a massively amazing explosion of Elizabeth and Charlotte - my 2 favourite names! Love love love it. Great thinking, OP

Because of this thread I've been humming 'I am Sixteen' for the past hour and trying to remember (without googling) the name of Liesl's horrible boyfriend. I can't decide if he was Fritz or Ralf.

Lieselotte was the name of the main girl character in our German textbooks.

'Mein Bein its gebrochen!'