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?