{"id":5960,"date":"2013-03-18T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/03\/18\/the-pronunciation-of-helena\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T05:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:57:50","slug":"the-pronunciation-of-helena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/03\/18\/the-pronunciation-of-helena\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pronunciation of Helena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Swistle! My husband and I aren&#8217;t having a baby yet, but I have a question about the name Helena. I love it and would definitely consider using it if we were to get pregnant and find out we were having a girl. The only issue in having is I&#8217;m not sure which pronunciation I like most (Heh-lay-nah or Heh-lee-nah) or which most people would say on first glance. I was hoping you could put up a poll to find out (I also think this would help me figure out which I&#8217;d prefer, if I was disappointed\/happy in the way the results ended up). Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have also heard a third pronunciation, which is like HEH-leh-na, with the emphasis on the first syllable instead of on the second&#8212;sort of the rhythm of Eleanor, or like Helen with an -ah on the end.<\/p>\n<p>My own favorite pronunciation is heh-LAY-na. The name Elena (with the eh-LAY-nah pronunciation) has been on my own girl name list.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a poll over to the right! &#8230;Wait. Do you want a poll about which pronunciation people like the most, or about which one they&#8217;d use at first glance? Let&#8217;s have TWO polls, one for each question. [Polls closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-shot-2013-04-16-at-5.56.09-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7455\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-04-16 at 5.56.09 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-shot-2013-04-16-at-5.56.09-AM-179x300.png\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-shot-2013-04-16-at-5.56.09-AM-179x300.png 179w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-shot-2013-04-16-at-5.56.09-AM-89x150.png 89w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-shot-2013-04-16-at-5.56.09-AM.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle writes: Hi Swistle! My husband and I aren&#8217;t having a baby yet, but I have a question about the name Helena. I love it and would definitely consider using it if we were to get pregnant and find out we were having a girl. The only issue in having is I&#8217;m not sure which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1y8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}