Thaila

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

WDYT about Thaila (pronounced like Tyler)? It's the first name of the actress who recently played the fake housemate on the UK version of Big Brother.

Personally, I think it looks a lot more feminine that Tyler, which is sometimes used as a girl's name, but I still don't like it. I think it's probably because I just don't like Tyler as a name anyway.

NB: ThaILa, not ThaLIa. So the pronunciation is like the beginning of Thailand, then a short "a" sound (which to me is very similar to an "er" sound, but apparently not to everyone the world over).

Comments

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Thalia pronounced like Tyler doesn't really make any sense to Americans. We never would drop the R on the end of Tyler.

I love the name Talia said tal-ee-uh. I like the name Tyler (even on girls). I dislike Thalia because the H is confusing as hell to me.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

You've never been to Boston/Southern NH have you =)

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

except the freaks in Boston, lol....

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

It's not dropping the r, it's adding the r, in English accents an 'a' at the end of a word has an 'er' sound.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

In Boston they drop r's in a lot of words, and they also add the er sound to words that and in an 'ah' sound. I grew up about an hour outside of Boston and spent my life being Hanner...