Pronunciation

[Biscuitbreaker]

How do you pronounce Eleni?

eh-LEN-ny?
ellen-KNEE?
EL-len-ny?

el-AY-nee.
Unless I knew the child in question was, say, Polish or Hungarian (stress falls on first syllable), in which case, EL-en-ee.

Gah. Polish or. Stress falls on the penult in Polish, not the first.
What I said about Hungarian though!
Ignore me, it's clearly time for bed.

I would pronounce it el-EN-ee.

el-ay-nee

I have a friend called Eleni - pronounced Eh-lenny, we call her Leni (like Lenny Henry), her family are greek-cypriot