Layla/Leila

[eatmorepi.livejournal.com]

Leila or Layla? Or a different spelling?

Comments

[eatmorepi.livejournal.com]

Hmm...interesting. To me lei is definitely "lay", like a Hawaiian lei? Haha. I wonder if it's a regional thing?

[tabby-renee.livejournal.com]

OH so that's how you spell that! LOL. I haven't gone outside much of where I'm from and where I live now :)

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I live on the west coast, it's definitely pronounced 'lay' I can think of a Hawaiian name, Leilani, which is pronounced lay-lawn-ee.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I'm weird, I see Leilani as Lay-Law-Ne, but Leila as Lee-la.

Ditto to the other comments: Leila is Leela while Layla is Lay-la, lol.

It wouldn't be weird to pronounce it the Lay-la way, but it wouldn't be the first thing that I thought of when reading the name.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I think of Futurama and the character Leela. And I believe that is how it's spelled, too.