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[botica.livejournal.com]

How would you guys prononuce these two girls names, and WDYT of them?

Alai

Alaia

Comments

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

1. as if you were saying "I told a lie." It makes me think of jai alai.
2. same, but with "uh" at the end. It sounds a little like "a liar," but it looks beautiful.

[florallove.livejournal.com]

Uh-lay and Uh-lay-a are what I thought at first.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

A-lay
A-lay-a

Probably wrong though.

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

Same here!

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

ah-lie
ah-LIE-uh

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I've disliked the name Alai since seeing I Know My Kid's A Star on VH1 (I dislike it based on her overbearing mother) but I've loved Alaia since I saw it on Supernanny. There were twins named Ashlyn and Alaia. However, my problem with Alaia is that it sounds like "A liar."

I watch too much TV. :)

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Isn't Alai a boy's name? I only know it from Ender's Game.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

That's why it sounds so familiar. I couldn't remember. It's been too long since I read any of those books (as this proves).

[ecarnation.livejournal.com]

Alai Ah-lay

Alaia Uh-lay-uh

I don't think I would use them, I don't hate them.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

A-lie, and then Al-e-a. Which is weird, 'cause I think that they're almost supposed to be the same name. I don't think that I really like them because I don't know how to say them. And I don't like the way they look.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

uh-LY
uh-LY-uh

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I think when I read Ender's Game in high school, I thought of it as, approximately, "al-AY." My first thought on reading the post now was "uh-LAY."

And Alaia looks like "uh-LAY-uh" to me.