Lettice/Letitia/Leticia

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Do you like Lettice (leh-teese)? DH has raised the concern that people may try to pronounce it like lettuce (which honestly doesn’t bother me much because people mispronounce a lot of simple names). Letitia and Leticia are also options for that reason.

It's a very old English name, at least 15thC - there was a Lettice Knollys who married Elizabeth I favourite Robert Dudley, which infuriated Elizabeth. She was a cousin of hers. Thinking about it, I assume it is actually Norman French in origin and came over with William the Conqueror.

I studied History at university and went on to teach A level Tudors for many years and up til then I'd always pronounced it as lettuce.

It's actually pronounced Le Teece, rather than like the salad ingredient but you will have a lifetime of people mispronouncing it.

I thought Leticia was meant to be pronounced as leh-tee-see-ah? Everyone here is saying either leh-tish-ah or leh-tee-sha.

Letitia is very pretty, and she will grow into it....

Your husband is right and it doesn't bother you because you won't have to live with it

You could go for Latisha

.... or Rapunzel

Do you say Pat-riss-ee-a or Di-et-eet-ee-an?

To be blunt, I definitely question someone’s level of awareness and education when they seemingly do not understand how to pronounce simple words/names and don’t use basic context clues to help them sort it out. (Why in the world would anyone’s name be pronounced the same as lettuce?!) This obviously only applies to native English speakers.

I once heard someone pronounce a missing child’s name (Liam) as lee-am instead of lee-uhm and internally cringed.

No/no/no! You want to move ahead with Lettice even though there is a very good chance people will call her "lettuce"? Kids will be brutal.

I think leh-tee-see-ah is the original Spanish pronunciation of Leticia.

I like Lettice. But yes, people will mispronounce it.

I have a Celtic name (Celtic mother) and it often gets mispronounced by people the first time we meet (apart from when I’m in my mothers home territory 😃) , but I’m now well practiced in saying “actually it’s pronounced…..family heritage and all that” with a cheery smile and with only the very odd dickhead person it’s a one time wonder and never been an issue.

I love my name and get a lot of compliments on it.

My only gripe is that it’s become slightly more common than it was (in England) and I had the horror for the first time in my life 8ish months ago where there was a new starter with the same first name 😂

I would pronounce it is lettuce

Do you struggle with the concept of different accents?

LETTICE?

Reminds me of school days when we would giggle at the Vicar whenever he said, "lettuce pray" 🤣

Leticia is ok or Latisha if you prefer a different spelling.

@JJB3 , I once heard someone pronounce a missing child’s name (Liam) as lee-am
What's wrong with that?
It's not like they said Sean as Seen, Iain as Yane or Siobhan as Sigh-o-bun, is it, and none of those names are English anyway. (Apologies for missing fadas)

There was a girl at my primary school called Lettice, and I remember being baffled about why she was called Lettuce. I’m sure lots of little kids would have asked her about her name, mostly innocently but probably still wasn’t fun.

I like Letitia!

Please don’t call her Lettice. As someone with a name that people used to take the piss out of from being 5, it affects you more than you’ll know.

Obviously no Agatha Christie fans here. Murder at the Vicarage anyone? Book, play, tv? Lettice Protheroe, the vicar’s daughter, who may or may not have murdered the adulterous artist. Shakes head in despair ..

Id like everyone to meet Lettice

My dad has a "thing" about this name, which he encountered professionally. I won't elaborate further bcz nobody cares.

Leticia (millions of spellings, that's my dad' s bugbear) is a super common name and I would take great care to not spell it remotely close to Lettuce. It's pretty when pronounced 'uh' at the end, imho.

If you insist on a pronunciation like "le-tees" I would spell it kind of like that, maybe Leteese. It's like a red flag to bullies, though, so actually I wouldn't ever use it. I was bullied as a kid, I couldn't be brave about it.

I’m a Tudor history fan and love the name Lettice. I do get the point others are making that some people wouldn’t get it and that your kid would likely end up being called Lettuce though

It was an American man with a very standard American accent saying it, so it wasn’t his accent. There’s a difference between having an accent and definitively pronouncing something incorrectly.

My sisters' name is Laetitia, whe call her Tia. I think Laetitia, no matter which way it is spelled, is a beautiful name.

My name is quite unusual in the UK too, but not where I'm from. It's an easy name, but often mispronounced.

I cant imagine being called Lettice, don't do it!

No. She will inevitably be called Lettuce.