How to pronounce Leah

Posted: Mon, Jul 12 2010, 8:42 pm Post subject: How to pronounce Leah

Which do you think sounds the prettiest?
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Lay-a, hands down. It's also the most common, so everyone will say it that way anyways!!

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Correct Hebrew pronunciation is Lay-ah, though my DD with that name will sometimes refer to herself as Lee-a when speaking on the phone with a non-Jewish business (they're more familiar with that pronunciation).
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Like the Star Wars princess, it's Leia.

Lie-ah? You MUST be kidding. Lie-ah, lie-ah, pants on fie-ah? Please.

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Posted: Mon, Jul 12 2010, 9:51 pm Post subject: re: How to pronounce Leah

If you are asking to name your own baby, it really depends on the circle you are in.

We have a dd Raizel. (Ray-zel). The person she was named after was Rie-zel, the Chassidish pronounciation. DH asked a rav at the time which way we should go. I really liked "Rie-zel" , but the rav said to go with "Ray-zel" given the types of community we live in. As a BT, I really didn't see it then, but having lived in a bunch of places, I do see that he was right!

Posted: Mon, Jul 12 2010, 9:52 pm Post subject: re: How to pronounce Leah

Whoops. Only meant to edit that. Bedtime for this mommy. Smile

Some of our relatives will definitely be calling her Lie-ah. But somehow, it's just not rolling comfortably off my tongue. I'm more comfortable with Lay-a or Lee-a.

Maybe I should call her Lay-a and nickname her Lee-a. There, I get both. Very Happy

But will she grow up all confused with her name pronounced 3 different ways? Hmm.

Posted: Mon, Jul 12 2010, 10:03 pm Post subject:

DD is Lay-a.

My issue was American spelling, since I dint want ppl to pronounce it Lee-a. I went with the trational spelling "Leah" in the end, and peole mispronounce. I wish I had gone with Layah
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my baby girl leah we call her lay-lay its so cute

Posted: Mon, Jul 12 2010, 10:49 pm Post subject: re: How to pronounce Leah

my Leah is called Lay-ah and shes the cutest! so it pays! Wink

Posted: Tue, Jul 13 2010, 7:11 am Post subject: re: How to pronounce Leah

Leh-ah, like in Hebrew.
Lay-ah to me is imitating an English accent, or princess Leia (nice name per se, just not when you mean Lea). Lie-ah is chassidish, I like it.
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