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Confusing! I'm asking because I met a Spanish girl named Elisa and she pronounced it like Alyssa (with an Eh sound at the beginning, though). I'm pretty sure in Spanish it is correctly pronounced eh-LEE-sa, which is why I was confused. Maybe she tried to americanize the pronunciation? So it would be closer to Alyssa, not knowing that it was pronounced eh-LEE-sa here, too? After all Lisa is LEE-sa. But she should have found out by now. Or her parents wanted of what they thought of as a more english pronunciation.

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Elysia's meaning is pretty cool. Too bad people will think it was a creative spelling.

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I like how you pronounce Brittany. I kind of like it with a three syllable pr.