I've known a number of girls named Aleasha, Aleesha, Alisha etc as variants of Alicia, so that's what stood out to me. And I've never heard anyone pronounce Anneliese as an-uh-LEASH. On the other hand, if someone Italian pronounced Annelise without transliterating it as Annalisa, they might say it an-eh-LEE-sheh.
Edit: now I'm second-guessing my Italian pronunciation, and my Italian books are at home. I could be wrong!
It's possible!
My argument still stands though :-P Anneliese is a combination name already, so it'd be mashing Anne, Liese and Louisa together.
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This message was edited 8/23/2006, 9:10 PM