I love
Elias. I also think it is easier to say than
Elijah.
Though maybe it is pronounced Ee-LIE-as in English? In Swedish and other countries it is pronounced Eh-LEE-us. But even so, I think
Elias is easier to pronounce than
Elijah, it must be the "J-sound" in the middle that I don't like.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson,
Garden Party
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (
Edith Södergran 1891-1923)