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in reply to a message by LMS
Advice, please, on US pronunciation! Baizyl Lawson Jean makes me wonder ... where I live, and I think in British English generally, Basil starts with a Baz. Short a sound, as in flat or apple. But Baizyl (poor child, he's got a lifetime of explaining ahead of him) seems to suggest that in the Western hemisphere it starts with an ay, as in bay or Mabel. Am I right? And if I'm wrong, what could the parents have been thinking of?
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I assume it starts with Baz when I see it as a name, but the way I pronounce the herb starts with bay.
This message was edited 4/13/2019, 10:25 PM
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I'm in the US and I would pronounce this BAY-zil.
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It could be either Bay-zil or Baz-l, but more likely the former.
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