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JO-lee sounds awesome. I like it! But Joely makes me want to say Jo-eh-lee. Have you found that particular spelling somewhere? Maybe you can convince me that it's valid! :)
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Hmmm I think it was made up by either Vanessa Redgrave (who has a daughter named Joely) or Phil Collins, who also has a Joely. They both pronounce it JO-lee and as they are the only people with this name (or at least were at the time, I suppose) I guess JO-lee is correct. It makes sense, because I guess their parents combined Joe (JO) and Lee (LEE). It never occured to me to say JO-eh-lee.
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Wikipedia says that Tony Richardson's biography says that he & Vanessa got the name from Natasha's swimming teacher who named her daughter Joely, apparently as a misspelling of the French word jolie.
I totally thought it was zho eh LEE until I actually heard it.
Wikipedia says that Tony Richardson's biography says that he & Vanessa got the name from Natasha's swimming teacher who named her daughter Joely, apparently as a misspelling of the French word jolie.
I totally thought it was zho eh LEE until I actually heard it.
This message was edited 6/17/2012, 2:21 PM
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I guess misspelling and mispronunciation :P It's pronounced zho-LEE in French so if her swimming teacher pronounced it JO-lee and spelled it Joely it has nothing to do with that anymore :P Thanks for looking it up. It is so weird how the name is so common with celebs. Vanessa's daughter, Phil Collins' daughter, Carrie Fisher's sister, some N'Sync singer's daughter. Whoa!
I wonder where the other celebs got it from, or whether they were inspired by Vanessa's daughter. I think she's the oldest.
I wonder where the other celebs got it from, or whether they were inspired by Vanessa's daughter. I think she's the oldest.
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I know, I'm also partly French ;) Interestingly, it looks like there were 6 of them born in the first quarter of 1965, and none before that at all. Joely R. and one other were born in London. Must be the swimming teacher's daughter!
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