{"id":6402,"date":"2011-04-16T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/04\/16\/baby-naming-issue-how-do-you-pronounce-louisa\/"},"modified":"2014-06-26T06:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:53:26","slug":"baby-naming-issue-how-do-you-pronounce-louisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/04\/16\/baby-naming-issue-how-do-you-pronounce-louisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: How Do You Pronounce Louisa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T. writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because I have an Annalise, I don&#8217;t know if I could use the name Louisa on my current to-be-born baby (too much &#8220;ise&#8221; &#8211; ?), but I wanted to know how people pronounce the name Louisa before I seriously consider it. My grandmother says loo-EEZ-ah, but I&#8217;ve always pronounced it and thought of it as loo-EESE-ah, and I think they sound like two different names. I wouldn&#8217;t want to name my baby loo-EEZ-ah. Can we have a poll to determine what the common pronunciation is?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nGood idea! This reminds me of a high school acquaintance who had to work hard to get people to say LESS-lee instead of LEZ-lee: I&#8217;d never realized there were two ways to pronounce it, and now I note which one it is when a Lesley introduces herself.<\/p>\n<p>I say Louisa loo-EEZ-ah (and Louise &#8220;loo-EEZ&#8221;), and because I find it so fun to say I probably overdo a W sound: more like loo-WEEZ-ah. I use the Z sound for Louise and Eloise, too. I think if I wanted a soft S I would use the name Luisa: because I pronounce Luis &#8220;loo-EES,&#8221; it would come naturally to me to use the soft S with Luisa. (Which is a silly and arbitrary thing, since I also say Louis with a soft S. But the Luis(a) spelling draws my attention to it in a way Louisa doesn&#8217;t&#8212;maybe I think of Louisa as coming from Louise instead of from Louis.) Or I might use Lucia (pronouncing it loo-SEE-ah) to get similar sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s put a poll over to the right: How do YOU pronounce Louisa? [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Louisa.png\" alt=\"Louisa\" width=\"239\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Louisa.png 239w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Louisa-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T. writes: Because I have an Annalise, I don&#8217;t know if I could use the name Louisa on my current to-be-born baby (too much &#8220;ise&#8221; &#8211; ?), but I wanted to know how people pronounce the name Louisa before I seriously consider it. My grandmother says loo-EEZ-ah, but I&#8217;ve always pronounced it and thought of [&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-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Fg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9930,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/9930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}