Possibly.
The family I work for here are Swiss-French and they say
El-. I know cause I may have named one of the characters
Elodie when
Anissa and I made a story book together. I jsut wanted to hear them say it! But the first time I heard the name was skiing in the French alps (on the sweetest little blonde haired blue eyed girl) and they prn. it Ay-. Looovvve it in a French accent.
I would write it with the accent over the E, which makes it into the Ay sound (as in
Renee or Cafe). Just not sure how to type the accent on here (plus it doesn't link to them name if I do).