[Ads-l] An unusual contrast: Haley vs Hayley

[Mark Mandel]

No, it's closer to /I/. I seem to have been influenced by phonological
spellings I've seen that were probably more UK than US

Mark

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018, 12:32 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> As in the (potential) contrast between “daily” and “Daley” (e.g. the
> former Chicago mayors).  Only for me, “daily” can vary between the /‘deli/
> (Mark, do you really have final -ɪ in these?  I have -i) and “Daley”
> pronunciations.  Similarly for “Bailey”.  One that requires the -/eli/
> pronunciation (when I worked my way through the alphabet) is cèilidh
> (a.k.a. kaylee) or Kay-Lee, but I don’t have much occasion to pull out that
> pronunciation in either case, since nobody has ever invited me to any of
> the former and the latter is a defunct toy store chain.
>
> LH
>
>
> > On Apr 8, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > I met a young woman yesterday whose name is Haley. As I often do, I asked
> > if she would tell me about that rather unusual spelling, explaining that
> as
> > a linguist I'm interested in names. She said that her father wanted to
> name
> > her with the more common "Hayley", but her mother wanted people to
> > pronounce it /'helɪ/ instead of /'he͡ɪlɪ/.
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
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