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Help[Opinions] Re: Cecily & Cecilia/Cecelia pronunciation
in reply to a message by sambchop
I'm with you on Cecilia! Though I think mine emerges more as si-SEEL-yə. Cecelia, I don't know so much. I say Celia with three syllables, but Cecelia annoys me so much that I don't believe I've ever pronounced it at all.
Cecily has the "alternative" of Cicely, which seems to suggest two different sounds. As a pair of sparring partners who end up calling each other "sister", it works well for me if Cecily and Gwendolen share a short E sound. But the whole Cec- complex is tricky. Cecil is CESSil or sometimes CISSil in British English but, apparently, CEEsil in the States, and nobody seems to find this inconvenient: maybe the same applies for girls?
Cecily has the "alternative" of Cicely, which seems to suggest two different sounds. As a pair of sparring partners who end up calling each other "sister", it works well for me if Cecily and Gwendolen share a short E sound. But the whole Cec- complex is tricky. Cecil is CESSil or sometimes CISSil in British English but, apparently, CEEsil in the States, and nobody seems to find this inconvenient: maybe the same applies for girls?
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