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How would you pronounce...

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Blazinghotmonkey · 02/03/2018 10:17

Caleb?

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dementedpixie · 02/03/2018 10:17

Kaylib

Midnightpony · 02/03/2018 10:17

Kay leb

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 02/03/2018 10:18

Kay - leb

BothersomeCrow · 02/03/2018 10:18

Kay-leb. The second syllable might become a schwa only if I were speaking really quickly.

MongerTruffle · 02/03/2018 10:18

Kayleb
How do you want it to be pronounced?

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Blazinghotmonkey · 02/03/2018 10:20

I say Kay-LEB but I don’t like it pronounced Kay-LIB which I feel may be inevitable

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RavenWings · 02/03/2018 11:27

Kay-leb for me.

LivLemler · 02/03/2018 11:40

KAY-leb. The vowel in the second syllable could be -leb, -lub, -lib for me, there's not much in it, it's very short. Definite emphasis on first syllable.

HuskyMcClusky · 02/03/2018 11:42

KAY-leb. The vowel in the second syllable could be -leb, -lub, -lib for me, there's not much in it, it's very short. Definite emphasis on first syllable.

This.

Nobody is going to say it with the stress on the second syllable, Kay-LEB, if that’s what you’re after.

NotSoSprightly · 02/03/2018 11:47

Kay-lub.

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Blazinghotmonkey · 02/03/2018 12:02

A taught a little boy who was Kay-Leb with the stress on the Leb part. So it is possible. I just don’t want to always have to correct people who say Kay-lib

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IVflytrap · 02/03/2018 13:31

Kay-leb

With the stress on the Kay, and the leb more like a "schwa" sound. The second syllable would never sound like "lib" in my accent.

Worldsworstcook · 02/03/2018 13:33

Kay lib. Df has son and that's how she pronounces it

pipilangstrumpf · 02/03/2018 13:55

Surely Caleb is Cah-leb. There's no i or u.

happytobemrsg · 02/03/2018 13:56

Kay leb

HuskyMcClusky · 02/03/2018 14:00

Kay lib. Df has son and that's how she pronounces it

Why, though? How does she get ‘lib’ out of ‘leb’? Confused

LiviaAD · 02/03/2018 14:13

kay lib here too, must be a regional thing

greendale17 · 02/03/2018 14:15

Kay-leb

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Blazinghotmonkey · 02/03/2018 14:15

Thanks, responses are reassuring. What do you think of it as a name? Does it conjure up any images for you?

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LiviaAD · 02/03/2018 14:20

A bit Puritan/biblical, brown dungarees, wife probably a 'prepper', Christian fundamentalist but I still quite like it!

MaisyPops · 02/03/2018 14:27

Kay-leb. Stress on the first syllable. (Though 2nd is so short there not much ij it between leb and lib)

Wanting people to put the stress on the second is odd and reminds me of a girl in school who was called naomi.
NIE o mi - i get
NAY o mi - I get

Nope. Her name was NAY-OH-me. First 2 syllables stressed and quick. Apparently it really annoyed her and her mum when people didn't pronounce her name properly.

Sevendown · 02/03/2018 14:31

It sounds more like lib in my accent

soloula · 02/03/2018 14:38

Scottish accent here and I'd say lib.

Zaya71 · 02/03/2018 14:43

I know a Welsh Caleb who pronounces it Cah-leb, rather than Kay-leb.

bringbackfonzi · 02/03/2018 16:21

I'm surprised so many people are saying 'leb'. I thought it was always 'lib'.