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[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

One of the 9th graders in my homeroom is named Hawley. Usually I hate non-traditional spellings, but I love it in this case.

Hawley has a completely different feel to me than Holly does.

Thoughts?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

It sounds like someone who can't say Harley.

I didn't even associate it with Holly at first.

I think it's incredibly ugly, to be honest. I think it looks masculine and sounds ugly. I emphasize the "HAW-ley" not like Holly, which I say like "Hah-LY."

It also sounds like a eastern accented version of Holly.

[tames.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I pronounced it that way too when I read it... Weird.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I too didn't associate it with Holly at first. I don't get it.

[sal_amanda]

100% this.

[frost.livejournal.com]

This.

[summer-mommy.livejournal.com]

All this.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

this!

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

That's definitely not the same name to me.

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

They're pronounced identically, but they do look very different on paper.

[tames.livejournal.com]

I would never have known that was supposed to be Holly. I don't like it at all.

[tauruschick.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's last name is Hawley, it is totally not pronounced as Holly.

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

how is it pronounced?

[tauruschick.livejournal.com]

I am so not good with the whole phonetic spelling thing.. But kinda like Hahll-ey

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

D:

[queen-islanzadi.livejournal.com]

Jesus, that's horrible D:

I read that like HAW-lee (actually, in my head it sounded more like whore-lee) and didn't even get that it was Holly until you mentioned it.

[jessicann00.livejournal.com]

That's awful. Like everyone else, I had no idea that it was Holly. Looks like how I've heard Southerners pronounce Holly.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

it's my cousins girlfriends last name, and it's pretty much the same as Holly just idk i lil more accent on the Haw and a lil less on the Ley.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

I never would have guessed that "Hawley" was supposed to be "Holly". I pronounce them completely differently.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I thouht it was one of the H--ley variations. Hailey, Harley, Henley, Hawley.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

sorry, I took phonics in grade school. I can't get "holly" out of Hawley no matter how hard I try.

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

I can't for the life of me figure out how it could be anything else - when I say Holly the o has the same aw sound...

[so-there.livejournal.com]

it's the difference between stubbing your toe (AAAHHHHH) and seeing a cute kitten (awwwww).

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

that ahhh sound would be the difference for me between Holly and Halle (like Halle Berry)

[chronologie.livejournal.com]

in some American dialects those two sounds have merged, and people either have the "ah" or "aw" for both. I'm a linguist!

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I know someone with it as a surname, so the idea of it being a replacement for Holly didn't even come close to occurring to me. If it were ever to be a proper first name, that spelling seems more masculine to me.

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

The only word that comes to mind is "yucky."

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

It looks like a donkey braying "Holly."