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in reply to a message by M.Selenika
Melissa as me-LIE-sa (with the vowel of "sky") is anomalous. I've certainly never heard it and it can't be inferred from the spelling. Melissa was a very popular name several decades ago, and is virtually always pronounced me-LISS-a (rhyming with "kiss") by English-speakers in the US and elsewhere.
Do you remember the name of the cartoon?
Edit: Is it possible that the name you are recalling was Eliza? That's pronounced with a "long I" (e-LIE-za), very much the way you are remembering Melissa but without the M-.
Do you remember the name of the cartoon?
Edit: Is it possible that the name you are recalling was Eliza? That's pronounced with a "long I" (e-LIE-za), very much the way you are remembering Melissa but without the M-.
This message was edited 3/19/2021, 7:58 AM
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Milo is indeed normally pronounced with the first syllable as the English word "my".
At least when it was shown in the United States, though, the name of the character Melissa in "Milo Murphy's Law" was pronounced with the middle syllable rhyming with the English word "kiss", as shown in the following excerpt from You Tube at about 1:38:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKL3Xlequic
At least when it was shown in the United States, though, the name of the character Melissa in "Milo Murphy's Law" was pronounced with the middle syllable rhyming with the English word "kiss", as shown in the following excerpt from You Tube at about 1:38:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKL3Xlequic
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Maybe some characters pronounced it in different ways or maybe I didn’t remember well -it’s a long time I haven’t watched the show. :-(
Thank you.
Thank you.
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