{"id":5981,"date":"2013-02-13T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/02\/13\/do-over-the-pronunciation-of-cecily\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:42:35","slug":"do-over-the-pronunciation-of-cecily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/02\/13\/do-over-the-pronunciation-of-cecily\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-Over: The Pronunciation of Cecily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/02\/13\/the-pronunciation-of-cecily\/\">a question about the pronunciation of Cecily<\/a>, and I misunderstood the question: I thought it was asking if the name was SESS-sih-lee or SUSS-sih-lee&#8212;but in fact it was asking if the emphasis is on the first syllable (CEC-ily) or on the second (ce-CIL-y&#8212;like Cecilia). So let&#8217;s scrap that old poll and have a new poll over to the right. [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n<p>My answer to the question is that the emphasis is on the first syllable. Cecile is seh-SEEL, Cecilia is seh-SEEL-lee-ah, but Cecily is SESS-sih-lee (rhymes with messily).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-06-17-at-12.38.38-PM-300x176.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-06-17 at 12.38.38 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-06-17-at-12.38.38-PM-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-06-17-at-12.38.38-PM-150x88.png 150w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-06-17-at-12.38.38-PM.png 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I posted a question about the pronunciation of Cecily, and I misunderstood the question: I thought it was asking if the name was SESS-sih-lee or SUSS-sih-lee&#8212;but in fact it was asking if the emphasis is on the first syllable (CEC-ily) or on the second (ce-CIL-y&#8212;like Cecilia). So let&#8217;s scrap that old poll and [&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-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1yt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","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=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9053,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}