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My name is Laelia- my dad, who is a horticulturist, named me after his favorite species of orchid. Mine is pronounced like this: "Lail-lee-uh". I have seen online all possible pronunciations. My dad always said my name was a "double-diphthong" because of the vowels "ae" forming a combination of sounds. Between the two "l"s the "ae" takes on the sound "L-ay-el" which when said together makes the English "lail" sound. But I have read two different opinions that the Latin pronunciation (Laelia is originally Roman) of an "ae" takes on both the "i-eee" sound (as in the word "eye" or the short "e" sound as in "set". So, my name could originally have been pronounced "L-eye-lee-uh" or "Lel-lee-yah" Many languages around the world have variations of this name too- I have met people from Persia, Latin America, Europe, who all say they have versions of Laelia in their languages! So, basically there are a lot of pronunciations! (Mine is the best, though-heehee).
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On Dictionary.com under the pronunciation of the flower name it is Lee-Lee-Uh.
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In Latin, the "ae" is pronounced like the letter I or the word eye in English. So I pronounce it LIE-lee-a.
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This name is pronounced LAY-lee-ah or LIE-lee-a (at least when pronounced as the flower is).
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