[Vwoolf] How to pronounce "Isa" (Between the Acts)?

[Caroline Webb]

I always assumed it was “Izza” from “Isabel,” but I don’t know.

Caroline

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I always said “Eye-sa” because I knew someone in college (in US) who was named Isa and that is how she pronounced it. From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+sparks=exchange. clemson. edu@ lists. osu. edu> on behalf of Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf@ lists. osu. edu>

I always said “Eye-sa” because I knew someone in college (in US) who was named Isa and that is how she pronounced it.



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Date: Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] How to pronounce "Isa" (Between the Acts)?



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I don't see how anyone could 'know' the answer to this. I always pronounce the name eye-ssa in my head, but it might be izza. . . I'm not aware that anyone with authority (VW, LW, John Lehmann) ever said anything about it! On Sun,

I don't see how anyone could 'know' the answer to this. I always pronounce the name eye-ssa in my head, but it might be izza... I'm not aware that anyone with authority (VW, LW, John Lehmann) ever said anything about it!



On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 12:58 PM Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:

Another reason why I ought to have joined this list years before I did,
instead of peering furtively at the archives. Thank you. ("Ish-bel"?
That is a think new to me.) I have two editions of the BBC Dictionary of
Pronouncing Names, but neither includes what in America are called given
names, so this is very useful indeed.

On 12/1/2024 9:35 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> This has come up before on this list.  Isabella is a family name on my
> mother's side.  Auntie Isa was always called Eye-za (accent on 1st
> syllable).  I have never had any doubts, but this may be misleading as
> this is the Scottish side of the family.  Granny was Isabella =
> Iz-a-bella (again, accent on the 1st syllable, as it nearly always is
> in English names - an exception is Yvonne - Bernard is not an
> exception).  Cousin Isobel = Iz-o-bel.  Second cousin Ish-bel (God
> help us!), the Anglicised version of the Gaelic Iseabail (don't know
> how to pronounce that!).
>
> Stuart
>
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