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I value accuracy. Which means that I'm highly likely to check pronunciation and other things - language of origin, for one.

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I've always loved Eloise, though South Africans have always been rather bad at French so I wouldn't risk Heloise. It's probably a bit too frilly for me to consider as a fn, but it gave me a lot of pleasure one day, when my mother came home from work with a baffled smile. She had met a colleague from a different branch of the organisation she worked for, and this - perfectly pleasant, perfectly ordinary - person introduced herself as Hell-loys. Which left my Francophile mother with no choice but to use this extraordinary pronunciation as if it was as ordinary as Jane or Mary.

This message was edited 10/15/2019, 11:33 PM