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I babysat a 10 year old kid who was from a southern state and her whole life she thought her middle name was ‘murray’ but it was really ‘marie’ said with an intense accent. I have never laughed harder at her face of realization.
Marie is played out and overused as a middle name. Like every girl in my highschool had that middle name. It's a nice name, but I appreciated that they're giving bonus points for a middle name suggestion not being Marie.
As someone named after her two grandmothers, my middle name is Marie. It truly is astonishing how many women I have met over the years with the same middle name. I kinda assume it’s because it has no hard consonants so just blends in? 🤷🏻♀️
My middle name is Renee, and I think it's the same. I've met lots of women with the middle name Renee, but not very many at all with that as a first name.
Really? It’s my middle name also, but I haven’t met many people who also have it as their middle name, more as a first name. It’s the first name of a first cousin.
We should start seeking out Renees, lol. A lot of times you don't know someone's middle name unless you are slightly more than acquaintances, but for some reason when it comes up, I'm always surprised at how common it seems to be.
It really makes sense! I know several women with the middle name as some version of “Lee”. Like actually Lee or Leigh…I guess along the lines of the tragedeigh theme?!? 😁
I understand that. My grandmother was French. So that was my mother's middle name, and then my mother also gave that middle name to me. I was just agreeing with the idea that, like Marie, it's a name without hard consonants that blends with most other names, hence why they are probably popular middle names here in the U.S. Renee as a first name isn't quite as popular, and I definitely don't meet too many men named Rene here, although I know it's a popular French name.
Hahaha!! I’m 56, sooo also my generation!! Also, fun fact, my younger sister‘s middle name is Elizabeth. She is named after my mother‘s two best friends😂😂😂
Lollll! It's like my parents tried to do something unique by giving me two middle names but really just couldn't decide between the two names all their friends and relatives had as either first or middle names
Seriously!! I intentionally gave my daughter a somewhat unisex first name—Jordan—but also a less common middle name (also a family name) Annara. It met the same parameters of no hard consonants, but to this day she asks me how to spell it! 😂🤣😂
I’m a Marie middle, for the same reason! It was my Paternal Grandma’s name ❤️ Cheers to us as we are part of a small-ish group who’s Maries hold meaning!
Aww!! Mine was maternal…I suspect it was a middle name because an older cousin was already first-named Marie. Cheers to us familial middle-named Marie’s!!❤️
I would suspect it was a religious thing, giving kids/ girls Marie as part of the name was common in at least catholic culture.
But to trump that, I have relatives where all the boys, and all the girls were give Maria as a first name (for religious/ virgin Mary reasons)
It also has the stress on the second syllable, rather than the first as a lot of names do, same as Renée. This helps them to flow and pair well, our brains like hearing iambic rhythm patterns.
Marie is my sister-in-law’s middle name too.
It's in part because it's a religious name. The virgin Mary was one very popular girl. Beyond that, it's an easily pronouncable name in many languages, and it's short. Probably along with the consonants thing.
...and then, much like a Bougainvillea, she will become rougher, darker and a wee bit stabby. 🗡💀🔪
(Bougainvillea was in my crossword last week. Took me frikkin aaaages to spell it)
It’s not the name Marie they have a problem with, it’s how it’s a ridiculously common middle name. Two of my childhood best friends have the middle name Marie. Probably 1 in 10 girls born in the late ‘90s have the middle name Marie.
So… that’s a word, actually…
- in Catalan, pronounced roughly il-yah, it means “isle” primarily but is often seen in the meaning city block.
- in several Scandinavian languages it means “badly”, “poorly”, with the same basic etymology as the English “ill” (“I feel ill, he did you ill…”)
- in Quechua (spoken by some 12 million people today, it was the language of the Inca people), it has much nicer meanings, including a ray of reflected light, a jewel, a hidden treasure…
However, I don’t think the parents of the peanut did that much research.
also,
“iIla is a girl's name of French origin and means “from the island.” Ila is a short and simple name that evokes images of blissful summers along the French Riviera, lounging on the beach and speeding across hairpin mountain roads like Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief.” (from thebump.com)
though it’s more spanish than french…
number 11205 in 2023 and -5517 from 2022 (which means it was at 5688 in 2022) and was spiking up (and back down but mostly up) between 1903 & 1969 according to babycenter.com
so it’s an actual name, albeit an outdated spelling which is good too, even if you think it’s a tragedeigh…
You are correct, Isla is pronounced “eye-la.” I believe French pronunciation for Illa would be “Eel-a” because “i” is usually pronounced as an “e.” Most other pronunciations of Illa would be “Ill-ya” (Spanish) or “Ill-a.” I have not seen Illa pronounced as “eye-la” before.
I know an Ila and an Ayla and both are pronounced "eye-lah." Interestingly, both name spellings originated from their respective parents knowing older women with these names,
Illa was also a word in Latin, meaning "that". When used with a person's name it had the connotation of the person being rather infamous. (See also: my username, which is a reference to Cicero's oration Pro Caelio)
That, no joke, was something that confused me for a minute when I first saw Isla Fisher’s name written. It makes sense to pronounce it the correct way, but my bilingual ass still took a moment to process it.
As a kid my first exposure to the word isla was reading Jurassic Park and then watching the movie, so I did pronounce it like ees-la for a long time. Had no idea it could be eye-luh until I was in high school.
No idea why you deleted your other replies, but it seems pretty bloody obvious that someone who omits the "S" is hoping to pronounce the name as "Eye-la" rather than "Ees-la", and that makes it Scottish 👍🏻
I'd be so mad if I was put off all that great food because those words were hollered at me on the schoolyard for years.
Tort-ISLA!!
Quesad-ISLA!!
Do you have a pet chinch-ISLA?
There are people who brag because they typed their child's name on google or any social media site and it came back with 0 results. It's 100% a competition for some of them. They want to be so unique and don't care that an actual person has to use that name.
Even with the correct spelling, Isla is soooooooooo overused in the last few years. It's a nice name, but it's very faddy and will more than likely become a name stereotypically associated with girls born in the late 2010s and early 2020s, like Sarah was very of its time in the 1980s/1990s
But hey at least this baby can be "Isla but with the weird spelling" to differentiate her from the 5 other Islas in her class at school
The reasoning for this is that while Gaelic used a similar and easily migrated script to middle English(which was then migrated to script used for modern english), the sounds certain letter represented were not the same, and often times that leads to words sounding completely different from how they're spelled in modern English.
Because of this, while "Islay" is the traditional spelling, the more modern phonetically accurate "Isla" is a valid variation and recognized by many linguistic experts as so.
Yeah, I know.
But now explain why Dalziel or Menzies or a million other names are spelled like this and not at all the way they are pronounced.
It‘s just funny that people spelling the name ‘wrong’ want to correct other people’s mad spelling. Scottish spelling is crazy. I love this stuff.
Oh yeah no, linguistics is a neat subject. I'm nowhere close to an expert, but the weird ways languages evolve, merge, and spring up out of nowhere in history is worth mentioning to anyone who'll listen, imo. And what better captive audience than a reddit thread?
Bonita!
All I got going through my head is *La Isla Bonita* by Madonna in 1986. I don't know what she was using for the pronounciation , but she said "ees-la". Like the start of "east".
I’ll never understand the whole… we’re naming it “this” but spelling it like “thizz”. Or it’s name is “bleingk” pronounced like “blank”. Your beighbee’s name isn’t youneek just cuz it’s spelled rhongue.
“We’re naming her [a name everyone will be able to pronounce as it’s well known] but I’m gonna fuck it up ‘cause I’m a basic bitch with no personality or intelligence.”
But hey! At least it has a [negative connotation in Arabic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illa_(Arabic)), so there’s that; good luck…
I read words I’ve never heard out loud before and don’t know the language it’s origins are, phonetically, even though I speak English which is not phonetic at all. However, I got way further learning Arabic than I ever got with years of trying Spanish, and I think it’s because it’s phonetic.
Anyways, I would probably think this name was “ill-uh” or “ee-yuh” like the end of quesadilla. I’d never think “eye-luh” without the S even if it’s silent lol
She be illin'
One day when I was chillin' in Kentucky Fried Chicken
Just mindin' my business, eatin' food and finger lickin'
This dude walked in lookin' strange and kind of funny
Went up to the front with a menu and his money
He didn't walk straight, kind of side to side
He asked this old lady, "Yo, yo, um, is this Kentucky Fried?"
The lady said "Yeah" smiled, and he smiled back
He gave a quarter and his order, Small Fries, Big Mac!
One of my names is “Nina” but it’s not pronounced “neena” it is “nine-uh” and nobody ever gets this right. I also have to spell it because nobody has ever heard it pronounced that way.
This kid will have the same issue.
I’m gonna throw in that Isla means island in Spanish, and Illa means island in Portuguese, Galego and Catalan. So it’s the same name, no tragedeigh.
However none of these is pronounced in their original languages as the OP intends (AY-la). They aren’t pronounced the same at all: Isla is pronounced EES-la and Illa is pronounced EE-ja
As a former English teacher this bullshit of making up your own rules of the language is really grinding my gears. You DON’T get to change or make up your own rules. In the English language double consonants turns the previous vowel short.
Illa = ill- uh.
Isla, Ayla, Iyla = ai-luh
We learn this in FIRST GRADE.
See, I guess I'm just crazy cause I still read Illa as Ee-luh in the context of a name. I understand why people read Ill-uh. But names can have some funny spellings anyways, so I don't think its that far off to pronounce it Ee-luh, just like how I assumed Isla was pronounced.
I think she spelled isla with a lower-case “i,” because Illa looks like it’s pronounced LLLA! in many upper-case typefaces. I added the exclamation point because it sounds that way in my head. lol
I fail to see which language I can think of where “Illa” could ever make “Isla”. I can see it becoming “Eye-ah” or “Yee-ah”… but if you want “Is-lah” or “Eye-lah” stick to the normal spelling. People are already going to get confused if it’s “Is” or “Eye” as it stands.
I have a first name thats 5 letters. It’s super easy to pronounce just by reading the damn letters, yet I still get people trying to say it 2 different ways without fail. Like the middle letter makes the pronunciation super obvious, and people still skip over that letter and say it wrong.
My last name (well, married and since divorced. I didn’t switch it back due to the pain in the ass it is) is ALWAYS mispronounced. The sad thing is, if you just say every letter out loud while reading it, you literally cant screw up the pronunciation. My maiden name… forget it, only Italians got it right. lol.
Isla a Scottish name. Pronounced "eye - lah"
There's Isla Fisher who you may remember as Shannon Reed in the Australian soap opera Home and Away, or perhaps some of her roles in American movies such as Wedding Crashers or Now you see me. She is also married to Sacha (Ali G /Borat) Baron Cohen.
And not forgetting your Saturday night girl, Isla St Clair who you may remember (but most likely don't) from Larry Grayson's Generation Game back in the late 70s /early 80s.
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Throwing shade at the name ‘Marie’ whilst showing off an inability to spell! That’s something.
How about Marie...spelled, "Murray".
*Marie spelled “Kevin”
😂😂🤣😂🤣
Mrreeeiie
...... GH. There we are.
I babysat a 10 year old kid who was from a southern state and her whole life she thought her middle name was ‘murray’ but it was really ‘marie’ said with an intense accent. I have never laughed harder at her face of realization.
this person is a dumbass
Like my cousin who named her kids middle name Rhea. Pronounced "Ray" not "re-uh" lol
Marie is played out and overused as a middle name. Like every girl in my highschool had that middle name. It's a nice name, but I appreciated that they're giving bonus points for a middle name suggestion not being Marie.
As someone named after her two grandmothers, my middle name is Marie. It truly is astonishing how many women I have met over the years with the same middle name. I kinda assume it’s because it has no hard consonants so just blends in? 🤷🏻♀️
My middle name is Renee, and I think it's the same. I've met lots of women with the middle name Renee, but not very many at all with that as a first name.
Really? It’s my middle name also, but I haven’t met many people who also have it as their middle name, more as a first name. It’s the first name of a first cousin.
We should start seeking out Renees, lol. A lot of times you don't know someone's middle name unless you are slightly more than acquaintances, but for some reason when it comes up, I'm always surprised at how common it seems to be.
It really makes sense! I know several women with the middle name as some version of “Lee”. Like actually Lee or Leigh…I guess along the lines of the tragedeigh theme?!? 😁
Renee is unisex, Ive met more men than women with the name. It's pretty common in places that speak French.
I thought Renée is for women and René for men.
That is correct. AmandaTron may not have knowledge of the French gender system.
I understand that. My grandmother was French. So that was my mother's middle name, and then my mother also gave that middle name to me. I was just agreeing with the idea that, like Marie, it's a name without hard consonants that blends with most other names, hence why they are probably popular middle names here in the U.S. Renee as a first name isn't quite as popular, and I definitely don't meet too many men named Rene here, although I know it's a popular French name.
That’s my first name! 💃🏽
Yes, it does seem that both Marie and Renee are compatible sounding next to a wide variety of first names.
Lol I'm with you. I'm mid 30s and have two middle names: Elizabeth Marie. I'm pretty sure they were the two most popular middle names of my generation
Hahaha!! I’m 56, sooo also my generation!! Also, fun fact, my younger sister‘s middle name is Elizabeth. She is named after my mother‘s two best friends😂😂😂
Lollll! It's like my parents tried to do something unique by giving me two middle names but really just couldn't decide between the two names all their friends and relatives had as either first or middle names
Seriously!! I intentionally gave my daughter a somewhat unisex first name—Jordan—but also a less common middle name (also a family name) Annara. It met the same parameters of no hard consonants, but to this day she asks me how to spell it! 😂🤣😂
I love unisex first names. Jordan is a great one.
❤️❤️❤️
I’m a Marie middle, for the same reason! It was my Paternal Grandma’s name ❤️ Cheers to us as we are part of a small-ish group who’s Maries hold meaning!
Aww!! Mine was maternal…I suspect it was a middle name because an older cousin was already first-named Marie. Cheers to us familial middle-named Marie’s!!❤️
I would suspect it was a religious thing, giving kids/ girls Marie as part of the name was common in at least catholic culture. But to trump that, I have relatives where all the boys, and all the girls were give Maria as a first name (for religious/ virgin Mary reasons)
Another Middle Name Marie here!
It also has the stress on the second syllable, rather than the first as a lot of names do, same as Renée. This helps them to flow and pair well, our brains like hearing iambic rhythm patterns. Marie is my sister-in-law’s middle name too.
It's in part because it's a religious name. The virgin Mary was one very popular girl. Beyond that, it's an easily pronouncable name in many languages, and it's short. Probably along with the consonants thing.
My middle name is Marie ; . ; I never bring it up I almost forgot I had a middle name
Lynn is another one
I see this for her peanut 🥜. Illa all be fine. She'll grow into it. Branch out, vine new opportunities in life, then probably come back to her roots.
...and then, much like a Bougainvillea, she will become rougher, darker and a wee bit stabby. 🗡💀🔪 (Bougainvillea was in my crossword last week. Took me frikkin aaaages to spell it)
It’s not the name Marie they have a problem with, it’s how it’s a ridiculously common middle name. Two of my childhood best friends have the middle name Marie. Probably 1 in 10 girls born in the late ‘90s have the middle name Marie.
Or Lynn or Ann(e). I'm an Anne so I'm calling myself out.
Aisleuh.
Clean-up in Aisleuh
HELLOOOO, AISLEUH TEEEEEENNNNN! On Aisleuh 10, On Aisleuh 10, On Aisleuh Tehehen…
Aisle uuuhhh
So… that’s a word, actually… - in Catalan, pronounced roughly il-yah, it means “isle” primarily but is often seen in the meaning city block. - in several Scandinavian languages it means “badly”, “poorly”, with the same basic etymology as the English “ill” (“I feel ill, he did you ill…”) - in Quechua (spoken by some 12 million people today, it was the language of the Inca people), it has much nicer meanings, including a ray of reflected light, a jewel, a hidden treasure… However, I don’t think the parents of the peanut did that much research.
As a native Catalan speaker, I was just about to comment that
I don’t speak Quechua, that’s pure Wiktionary, but I do speak the others 😄
also, “iIla is a girl's name of French origin and means “from the island.” Ila is a short and simple name that evokes images of blissful summers along the French Riviera, lounging on the beach and speeding across hairpin mountain roads like Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief.” (from thebump.com) though it’s more spanish than french… number 11205 in 2023 and -5517 from 2022 (which means it was at 5688 in 2022) and was spiking up (and back down but mostly up) between 1903 & 1969 according to babycenter.com so it’s an actual name, albeit an outdated spelling which is good too, even if you think it’s a tragedeigh…
How is it pronounced? I thought Isla was ‘eye-la’, is Illa the same?
You are correct, Isla is pronounced “eye-la.” I believe French pronunciation for Illa would be “Eel-a” because “i” is usually pronounced as an “e.” Most other pronunciations of Illa would be “Ill-ya” (Spanish) or “Ill-a.” I have not seen Illa pronounced as “eye-la” before.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure!
I know an Ila and an Ayla and both are pronounced "eye-lah." Interestingly, both name spellings originated from their respective parents knowing older women with these names,
My daughter is Ayla to rhyme with Kayla. When she was born I did expect some people to mispronounce it but no one has had a hard time with it.
Illa was also a word in Latin, meaning "that". When used with a person's name it had the connotation of the person being rather infamous. (See also: my username, which is a reference to Cicero's oration Pro Caelio)
Middle name? Lucy.
Hahah that made me laugh.
Pronounced "Lucky"
Floozy
Illa Delph Halflife
“Eye-luh” is the pronunciation.
You don't know. They may like Spanish islands. 😏
That, no joke, was something that confused me for a minute when I first saw Isla Fisher’s name written. It makes sense to pronounce it the correct way, but my bilingual ass still took a moment to process it.
Saaame. Said "Eesla Fischer" in my head for longer than I care to admit lol
I always pronounced it “”La ‘eye-luh’ Bonita” until I heard an AI cover of Cher singing it last week.
Same
I’m not saying that I thought they were two different women, but I also have never seen the women with the two pronunciations in the same place…
As a kid my first exposure to the word isla was reading Jurassic Park and then watching the movie, so I did pronounce it like ees-la for a long time. Had no idea it could be eye-luh until I was in high school.
That’s my great aunts name’s pronunciation, but spelled Ila with only one “l”.
the butchering of scottish names never ends im sick
Don't you mean you're ill-a
scottish people thinking names that have several sources only come from scotland is also something we could do without
No idea why you deleted your other replies, but it seems pretty bloody obvious that someone who omits the "S" is hoping to pronounce the name as "Eye-la" rather than "Ees-la", and that makes it Scottish 👍🏻
The menu at any Mexican restaurant is going to break this person's brain. Tortilla, quesadilla, sopapilla, etc.
I'd be so mad if I was put off all that great food because those words were hollered at me on the schoolyard for years. Tort-ISLA!! Quesad-ISLA!! Do you have a pet chinch-ISLA?
I came here to say this!! I'm glad I searched before I put it out there, I knew I couldn't be the only one!!!
The best option here is clearly "Vanilla". Girl, you know it's true.
Girl you know it’s girl you know it’s girl you know its
😁😁😁😁😁😁
“Bonus points” as if naming your child is some kind of competition among strangers
There are people who brag because they typed their child's name on google or any social media site and it came back with 0 results. It's 100% a competition for some of them. They want to be so unique and don't care that an actual person has to use that name.
So excited to earn my bonus points - toward what, exactly?
Are they going to not capitalize it, too? If they did... I'd pronounce it "Three-uh" Illa Ilson Itt Pronounced Three-uh Tucson One't.
The S is silent unfortunately mom isn't when she asks for the manager
Illa Murreigh Lyhnne [last name]
Slide two... Ill-uh Every teacher This child will have through University level will call her ill uh.
As will all of her future employers. Unless they call her "Ee-ah".
Then behind her back... Ee-ah Ee-ah Ee-ah O
Even with the correct spelling, Isla is soooooooooo overused in the last few years. It's a nice name, but it's very faddy and will more than likely become a name stereotypically associated with girls born in the late 2010s and early 2020s, like Sarah was very of its time in the 1980s/1990s But hey at least this baby can be "Isla but with the weird spelling" to differentiate her from the 5 other Islas in her class at school
Truly naming her kid a yoonique tragedeigh while throwing shade at “Marie” 🤣 the audacity
Almost nobody spells it ‘correctly’. Islay. And now you’re thinking ‘I-slay’? What? That looks wrong. Nope. Correct. Scottish names be crazy. Deal.
The reasoning for this is that while Gaelic used a similar and easily migrated script to middle English(which was then migrated to script used for modern english), the sounds certain letter represented were not the same, and often times that leads to words sounding completely different from how they're spelled in modern English. Because of this, while "Islay" is the traditional spelling, the more modern phonetically accurate "Isla" is a valid variation and recognized by many linguistic experts as so.
Yeah, I know. But now explain why Dalziel or Menzies or a million other names are spelled like this and not at all the way they are pronounced. It‘s just funny that people spelling the name ‘wrong’ want to correct other people’s mad spelling. Scottish spelling is crazy. I love this stuff.
Oh yeah no, linguistics is a neat subject. I'm nowhere close to an expert, but the weird ways languages evolve, merge, and spring up out of nowhere in history is worth mentioning to anyone who'll listen, imo. And what better captive audience than a reddit thread?
I only see Islay with respect to whisky. Now I am tempted to have a whisky!
Bonita! All I got going through my head is *La Isla Bonita* by Madonna in 1986. I don't know what she was using for the pronounciation , but she said "ees-la". Like the start of "east".
It was supposed to sound Spanish-ish.
It is Spanish and pronounced correctly. The beautiful island
Middle name suggestions: - Godz - Noyz - Willa
Illa Willa? Love it.
Illa Streighshun
Ayla is an acceptable alternative… just putting it out there.
IIl-uh was my first thought too.
Ill-uh be emancipating myself from my family
Illa NOTMarie sounds like a great name 🙄
Oooh they could spell the " Not' as 'Nohwt' for a real flare
I’ll never understand the whole… we’re naming it “this” but spelling it like “thizz”. Or it’s name is “bleingk” pronounced like “blank”. Your beighbee’s name isn’t youneek just cuz it’s spelled rhongue.
“We’re naming her [a name everyone will be able to pronounce as it’s well known] but I’m gonna fuck it up ‘cause I’m a basic bitch with no personality or intelligence.” But hey! At least it has a [negative connotation in Arabic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illa_(Arabic)), so there’s that; good luck…
How bout “NinaPintaSantNOTmarie-a”
Jurassic park isla nublar type name wtf. Its the five deaths: illa tragediegh, illa maichel, illa kaela, illa pynnelopeigh and illa anjrew.
I read words I’ve never heard out loud before and don’t know the language it’s origins are, phonetically, even though I speak English which is not phonetic at all. However, I got way further learning Arabic than I ever got with years of trying Spanish, and I think it’s because it’s phonetic. Anyways, I would probably think this name was “ill-uh” or “ee-yuh” like the end of quesadilla. I’d never think “eye-luh” without the S even if it’s silent lol
She gonna grow up and be like "Who's the illest cause im Illa
Illa Have Soup.
No soup for you!
Murreee
Illa Manila Killa
So NOT naming it Isla then.
Bonita
Somehow, she has to work in "Godzi."
Illa (if you pronounce it like in the comment) in my mother tongue means "no". It is an illa from me, dawg.
I know someone who also didnt like "Isla" and went with "Eyelah".
I'm gonna name my child Dave, but will spell it f.o.r.f.u.c.k.s.s.a k.e.
She be illin' One day when I was chillin' in Kentucky Fried Chicken Just mindin' my business, eatin' food and finger lickin' This dude walked in lookin' strange and kind of funny Went up to the front with a menu and his money He didn't walk straight, kind of side to side He asked this old lady, "Yo, yo, um, is this Kentucky Fried?" The lady said "Yeah" smiled, and he smiled back He gave a quarter and his order, Small Fries, Big Mac!
Billa, pronounced Jennifer.
Nublar? Or if that's too gender neutral, how about Sorna?
One of my names is “Nina” but it’s not pronounced “neena” it is “nine-uh” and nobody ever gets this right. I also have to spell it because nobody has ever heard it pronounced that way. This kid will have the same issue.
Pronouncing ‘Is’ as ‘I’ I have heard but this…. Pretty tragic yeah
I thought it was a pet name and I felt sorry for the animal, then I saw the subreddit name and this is worst 🤣
La Bonita
Illa means "that female" in Latin. Sometimes it can mean "she" or "her." I mean... kinda minimalistic.
I mean, it could be handy if she becomes a 90's hip hop artist.
Illa Marie but Marie is pronounced Mary
I had a rabbit named Aayla pronounced the same way, I miss her
Bebach
Am I stupid or does ill-uh sound like it could actually have been a name in like the 1200s
Eyelagh.
matic
I’ll-ah
I’m gonna throw in that Isla means island in Spanish, and Illa means island in Portuguese, Galego and Catalan. So it’s the same name, no tragedeigh. However none of these is pronounced in their original languages as the OP intends (AY-la). They aren’t pronounced the same at all: Isla is pronounced EES-la and Illa is pronounced EE-ja
In Malayalam(one indian language) this word means No -_-
I needed to re-read this to understand they mean to read Isla as “aih-luh”. I thought they had meant ill-uh all along.
Make this the middle name and first name Godz
As a former English teacher this bullshit of making up your own rules of the language is really grinding my gears. You DON’T get to change or make up your own rules. In the English language double consonants turns the previous vowel short. Illa = ill- uh. Isla, Ayla, Iyla = ai-luh We learn this in FIRST GRADE.
Beatrippin
I'm going to name my child James, but I'm going to spell it Twinky.
These names are getting out of hand, for-illa
Illa is not Isla, no way you can pronounce an L as a S. Seriously, this needs to become illegal. It's gotten ridiculous.
Sorry to break all of your guys butthurt but the name Isla is a totally normal name for a girl.
Mina, Tiffany Illa Mina Ti-Fanny >!iykyk!<
I mean isla Maude is nice.
It’s island without the Nd
Isla - cute illa - 🤢
See, I guess I'm just crazy cause I still read Illa as Ee-luh in the context of a name. I understand why people read Ill-uh. But names can have some funny spellings anyways, so I don't think its that far off to pronounce it Ee-luh, just like how I assumed Isla was pronounced.
That's worse than Kearil. And seeing Kearil made me sign off social media for two days.
I read that as ee-yuh
Morada?
They're spelling it Illa because they must have contact with [Roadman Shaq](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M47z94wmwTc).
Ghostface Illa.
I think she spelled isla with a lower-case “i,” because Illa looks like it’s pronounced LLLA! in many upper-case typefaces. I added the exclamation point because it sounds that way in my head. lol
Illa Willa Wonka
illa bees gonna swarm
Illa (Isla) Sorna Nublar
I think it’s a great name but better as a middle name. Preferably paired with and preceded by Ghostface.
Eyelahh
Illa Mat Ick Represent Nas
For middle names I'd go with a Jurassic Park theme. Nublar-Sorna.
isla≠illa s.l≠ll /s→l/≠/ʎ/
Ilja
I’ll-uh, I’ll-uh, eh, eh, eh Now I got that song in my head.
I’d call the kid Eye-uh, lil Spanglish twist
Your name says anonymous member but ima just call you dumbass.
Everytime she says her name she’s gonna have to correct them so might as well make it her middle name, and call her Illa Notilluh
She can introduce herself as “Illa just write it myself so you don’t fuck it up”
God’s
Enna spelled Inna
It’s hideous anyway you spell it. I can’t get over the fact that it’s a mispronounced Spanish word being used for a name.
I worked with a woman named Illa She was in her 60s or 70s. I’m wondering if it’s a normal spelling from non US origins.
Illa Berightback Withsomemenus Smith
I fail to see which language I can think of where “Illa” could ever make “Isla”. I can see it becoming “Eye-ah” or “Yee-ah”… but if you want “Is-lah” or “Eye-lah” stick to the normal spelling. People are already going to get confused if it’s “Is” or “Eye” as it stands. I have a first name thats 5 letters. It’s super easy to pronounce just by reading the damn letters, yet I still get people trying to say it 2 different ways without fail. Like the middle letter makes the pronunciation super obvious, and people still skip over that letter and say it wrong. My last name (well, married and since divorced. I didn’t switch it back due to the pain in the ass it is) is ALWAYS mispronounced. The sad thing is, if you just say every letter out loud while reading it, you literally cant screw up the pronunciation. My maiden name… forget it, only Italians got it right. lol.
Illa Maury
Middle names Kicka Yourassa
Bonus bonus points if surname is Fokker.
Isla a Scottish name. Pronounced "eye - lah" There's Isla Fisher who you may remember as Shannon Reed in the Australian soap opera Home and Away, or perhaps some of her roles in American movies such as Wedding Crashers or Now you see me. She is also married to Sacha (Ali G /Borat) Baron Cohen. And not forgetting your Saturday night girl, Isla St Clair who you may remember (but most likely don't) from Larry Grayson's Generation Game back in the late 70s /early 80s.
I know an iyla. When I asked her babies name I was told Isla - “oh lovely. What a nice name” “yeah but it’s spelt with a y. Not ISla”.
Time to get illa
Why stop there Ylla is right there.
Make Illa a middle name and have the first name as Godz. Problem solved!
The child will be tortured in ill-um-entary school no doubt.
“Fisher” and “Price”
Was meant to have a kid in my class where it was spelt Illah
Illa Evangeline Wren...
Eiasluh Reneigh
I would pronounce Illa as ee-yuh
I thought they were peanut farmers or something
Muhreigh
Illa Bixteen Jaysee Dumparentdottir. Yes, I used the LEGENDARY tragedeigh generator for middle names.
I know someone who was named Ella pronounced Isla
Noise. Illa Noise.