Olalla

[bumblebee2233]

I recently heard a song by Blanco White and fell in love with the name Olalla.

But my worry is that no one will know how to pronounce it and will be forever correcting people.

If you've never heard it, how would you imagine it's pronounced just from the way it's spelt?

I think it would be beneficial to change the spelling. Even as someone with reasonable Spanish at first I read it as Oh-la-la because I was thinking of it in terms of English pronunciation.

I agree that no one will think to pronounce Olalla as anything other than oh la la in the uk. So changing the spelling would help there.

BUT I also find threads where people complain that perfectly lovely Gaelic names are not ok unless anglicised. So I’m loathe to do that to a Spanish name.

That’s a lot of L’s!

Never heard it, if I had to guess, I’d have said Oh-la-la