Message: "Evan & Elise" - Behind the Name

Evan & Elise

by Christelle (guest)

8/27/2007, 5:06 PM

WDYT of those names? Evan (ay-van) for a boy and Elise (ay-leez)?

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- Zachlyn (guest)

8/27/2007, 9:34 PM

I love the name Elise (my friend gets: a-lease, aleez, ay-leez, eye-leez and elsie). I think Evan is a nice name, though I would never use it.

- Amanda Frances

8/27/2007, 6:15 PM

I prefer English pronunciations for both names.

- mum2bubba

8/27/2007, 5:39 PM

Evan Luke and Elise Violet

- blaaarg +5

8/27/2007, 5:36 PM

If a boy named Evan told me to call him ay-van, I'd punch him.

Unless I was in a spanish speaking country or something.

Same with Elise. Come on, it's aleese. Evan's fine too. They're both fine names, just the pronunciation is ridiculous and pretentious.

Christelle pronounced Chreestelleh. Emma ay-mah. Amanda uh-mahn-dah. Caitlin kate-leen. Give me a break.

- christelle for BLAAARG (guest) +2

8/27/2007, 6:37 PM

Sorry I did not mean to sound pretentious or ridiculous. I just could not translate the french "E" into english but I guess the closest sound is like the E in Ennemy. Not sure about Evan as it's a welsh name, but Elise, as Aleeez yes, As it's a french name I should know. Christelle is pronunced like Chrees -telle (Michelle, Chanelle, chantelle). I live in Uk so I try to find (for later) names that are prunonced nearly the same ways in both countries. Tough !
Thanks Elena for support!

- blaaarg +1

8/27/2007, 7:05 PM

Oh!

I'm very ignorant and silly, sorry. I should have at least asked or bothered to find out if you were French.

I'll try again in light of new information: if you pronounced Elise aleeez and Evan frenchly, but didn't insist that everyone else did, it would be fine. (With me, I mean. Which is, you know, REALLY important. :P It wouldn't seem ridiculous or pretentious to me, anyway.) And I like both names a lot, actually.

My friend Judith Carolina "Carolina" is hoo-deet cah-ro-lee-na to her parents and Care-oh-line-a to everyone else, and it doesn't bother her. But if she went by Judith and insisted it be pronounced hoo-deet, I would roll my eyes at her a lot.

I hope this was slightly less rude. Sorry for being such a jerk :)

- christelle (guest)

8/27/2007, 7:31 PM

Don't worry everything is ok... At least we can commnicate so I do not think you are a Jerk now. It's so hard to write a sound ! If only we could hear the sounds on this website lol! You know the song a letter to Elise from the Cure? and the ad for Evan Almighty? Well If we hear the same way then I think we are ok on the pronunciation !Funny for the Hoo-deet, in french it's JU (like nude) dit'. LOL
Byeeeeee

- Elena +1

8/27/2007, 6:04 PM

Isn't Christelle French?

I believe she mentioned that once. If so, she'd pronounce Elise the French way and I suppose it would take some effort not to pronounce Evan with a French accent.

- blaaarg

8/27/2007, 6:59 PM

Oh, in that case I am an idiot. :D

- Caitlin (earthnut)

8/27/2007, 5:22 PM

Nice names, though I'd use Evander nn Evan and Eliza personally.

- Amanda (Manda_Bear)

8/27/2007, 5:22 PM

I really like them both, and I think they go nicely together. :)

- Elena +2

8/27/2007, 5:08 PM

I really like both but I've never heard of that pronunciation for Evan. I've only heard EH-van. Am I misunderstanding what you've typed?

- christelle (guest) +1

8/27/2007, 5:11 PM

Hello Elena (love your name BTW) yeah I meant Eh van. It is just as it's start to be famous un france but I am in UK I don't know how to pronunce the french "é" sound as it doesn't exist in english.

- Elena

8/27/2007, 5:16 PM

Thanks, Christelle.

My husband's grandfather's mn was Evan (Boyd Evan). Several of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren have used Evan as a mn as well which I think is a shame because it's such a nice name. Somebody needs to use Evan as a fn in this family. ;-)

This message was edited 8/27/2007, 5:18 PM

- Oups (guest)

8/27/2007, 5:07 PM

I meant Elise for a girl lol

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