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Repost: Help me pronounce "Alyssa"?
1) http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Alyssa
2) http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=al%E2%80%A6
Which one is the correct pronounciation (at the end of the name) phonetically, or is this name correct either way?
I thought it was the 2nd one, then i listened to dictionary.com pronounce "melissa" which supposedly ends the same way at the end as A-lyss-a, but apparently it sounds a little different. So now i'm confused. Someone good with phonetics tell me! :)
Dictionary.com for "melissa" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/m%E2%80%A6
Listen to 1 & 2 :) they're the audio pronounciation.
10 Answers
- 10 years agoFavourite answer
Alyssa can be pronounced either way you choose, also a large factor in how you say it depends on where you were taught to speak, your accent, the way the people around you pronounce it, so there’s no correct or incorrect way to pronounce it. If you noticed in #1 the voice sounds very plain, and in #2 the voice saying “Alyssa” sounds a bit fancier.
You can say it either way you choose, and if you like the way it is said in the audio of #2 then say it that way, for there is no correct way.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
OFF-in. Do you're saying MOIS-ten or LIS-ten or SOF-ten? The "T" is silent, and to pronounce it truly is in lots of circumstances a form of hypercorrection or some thing there is not any be conscious for yet that must be defined as "ridiculous satisfaction in being waiting to study basically sufficient to renowned that the 'T' is there and not desirous to permit that information bypass to waste, stupidly supposing that people who pronounce the 'T' are greater literate." needless to say, there are dialects the place the "T" has consistently been pronounced, yet elementary American English would not pronounce the "T".
- 10 years ago
Hi :) It's definitely the second one. There must be some error on dictionary.com. No-one says meliss-ee :) I've got a friend named Alyssa and nobodies ever gotten her name wrong :D
- Anonymous10 years ago
My friend's name is Alyssa, and she pronounces it Uh-LISS-uh. :)
However, I've heard someone pronounce the name Uh-LEES-uh before. Still, I'd say it's traditionally pronounced Uh-LISS-uh.
- Anonymous10 years ago
ah-liss-ah
- Anonymous10 years ago
au-liss-ah!(: