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Title: How would you pronounce...
Post by: Ela on December 24, 2008, 10:15:46 AM

...the name "Lila"?

Title: How would you pronounce...
Post by: Jonathon on December 24, 2008, 10:20:33 AM

"LIE-luh". Or, in IPA, /'lai.l?/. Just like the Oasis song, of course.

Title: How would you pronounce...
Post by: rivka on December 24, 2008, 10:36:45 AM

As would I . . . unless I knew the Lila in question to be Israeli. Then it's Lee-la.

Title: How would you pronounce...
Post by: Tante Shvester on December 24, 2008, 01:49:56 PM

Like Jonathon does.