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Help[Opinions] Re: Louisa or Luisa
in reply to a message by Serafina Starstrider
I just wanted to say that I love your name! Marisa has long been one of my favorites. Do you pronounce it with the long e sound? That's the way I prefer. I used to have a friend whose mother was Mexican and she named her dd Marissa and pronounced it with the standard American 'iss' sound. I was a bit surprised by that. Still a pretty name but not Marisa, imo.
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I go by both but mostly by "iss" rather than the long e. It's kind of weird but I was a teen before I realized that my mom had intended it to be the long e pronunciation.
She says that I had a hard time pronouncing it that way as a baby/ toddler so she just never corrected me since she likes both pronunciations. She on occasion uses the long e pronunciation just like on occasion she calls my sister Nicola instead of Nicole.
So in high school I considered which pronunciation I preferred and since I was mostly used to the iss pronunciation I decided that one. I felt the same way through college and it used to annoy me that my choir professor always said my name with the long e no matter how often I corrected her. But after college I started liking the long e pronunciation more and I still do but I don't know if I could switch to it easily. It may just stay the nn my mom uses. I have told a few people that I answer to both more recently. I do love both pronunciations and I definitely prefer the spelling of Marisa compared to Marissa.
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She says that I had a hard time pronouncing it that way as a baby/ toddler so she just never corrected me since she likes both pronunciations. She on occasion uses the long e pronunciation just like on occasion she calls my sister Nicola instead of Nicole.
So in high school I considered which pronunciation I preferred and since I was mostly used to the iss pronunciation I decided that one. I felt the same way through college and it used to annoy me that my choir professor always said my name with the long e no matter how often I corrected her. But after college I started liking the long e pronunciation more and I still do but I don't know if I could switch to it easily. It may just stay the nn my mom uses. I have told a few people that I answer to both more recently. I do love both pronunciations and I definitely prefer the spelling of Marisa compared to Marissa.
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This message was edited 1/22/2017, 2:09 AM
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