Lucia

[Swiminthesea23]

Thoughts on Lucia (as in St Lucia)??

Maria, Anna etc. have been around in the UK since medieval times.

Again. Îm not disputing they've been USED in the U.K. for centuries, but Ann is the original English spelling, Anne was French and Anna was the Italian variant. Now they've all become standard here.

Didn't realise it'd get so heated regarding the pronunciation!
I didn't think it's a big deal having to correct your name once for someone to get it...and some people will know it straight away.
It wouldn't be difficult whatsoever to remember once you've been told

I would pronounce Lucia as St Lucia, so Loo-sha.

If people read it, even when they know how you want it pronounced, they will often automatically read it out as they see it. For the rest of her life, your DD will be communicating with people who haven't met her previously, some of whom she won't meet face to face ever. They will see her name written and she will always be correcting them. That's all we're saying.

Reminds me of Mapp and Lucia and their fierce provincial rivalry. Nice enough name though.

(so I always think loo-chee-a)

I know of one, she's 10 and her mother says loosha

Basically every child I teach (at an international school) has to correct the pronunciation of their name when they meet new people, because guess what? Not everyone lives in Little England, not everyone is British, and some British people move to other countries. Outside the bubble it’s quite normal for people to have names that need some initial explanation, and it’s not a big deal.

Apart from anything else the LOO-SHA prononciation sounds like "looser".

How does Loosha sound like looser?!

I also know a Lucian who pronounces his name Loo-shan. He's English.

But I know that in Italian it would be Loo-chian.

FartnissEverbeans this is what I wanted to say but you put it more eloquently. I'm quite surprised at the attitudes of some people.

Apart from anything else the LOO-SHA prononciation sounds like "looser".

How does Loosha sound like looser?!

How does it not? They are one 'h' apart.

They are one 'h' apart.

Exactly and that h makes a big difference

Good grief. On this board it is regularly said that "Fleur" sounds like "Bleurgh" and whatever other soundalikes, but Loo-sha sounding like looser is somehow debatable?

I suppose I'm just talking as someone with personal experience of a name mispronounced by people who read or remember it incorrectly. It happens almost every time someone reads out my name and people who know me and have known me for a long time often get it wrong.

'it won't be pronounced correctly'.... 'dd spending a lifetime correcting mistakes'.... The name has caused so much debate ironically no one will forget the name Lucia now