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This isn't pronounced Elijah, this is pronounced Egglee.

I thought it would be pronounced e-lee, because of the gh combo, but is that not the case here? My english isn't perfect 😅

Or even Ef-lee

I could see eye-lee as a stretch. 

Egg-HUH-LEE-eye-guh-HUH

Er-leif

The problem isn’t your English lol not a single native speaker would have a clue how to pronounce this either

It’s totally “eeeh-leee.”

I think people are just voting eggly because it's funny. Your guess was my first thought. But actually the whole point of tragedeigh names is to avoid spelling conventions as much as possible. If you can figure out how to say or spell it without being told, it's not a proper tragedeigh!

I thought so too……

Totally Eggly

Or Ugh-Lee. 🥴

Egg lay

Now, I read it “Egg-leg”

Agreed.

Legee of my Eggee

🥰😍🤩🤩😄😊

I read “Ehh-Lee” and assumed they meant Ellie…

I read it at Ay-lee. Poor kid.

Egg lay, i.e. chicken.

Egglay*

I read it as Edgely but I'm not sure why because there's no "d" . Anyway, definately not Elijah.

That's how I read it too!

I read it as egg lay.

Eeely. Eel boy

Is the J supposed to be silent in the “Elijah” spelling? I always thought pronounced with the J. But I’ve never heard it in real life.

No. The j is pronounced when said correctly.

Thanks!

The quality of your English has nothing to do with it. That simply is not "Elijah", no matter what they say.

Not with that attitude it’s not

My name is Susan, pronounced Elijah, OBVIOUSLY 🙄

It's not even Eli.

This is a rare instance of the gh NOT being silent, apparently

I think that's Eli, rather than Elijah.

Yeah! My first thought was Ellie. Then I realized it’s supposed to be a male name after I was shocked to read it’s pronounced Elijah. That isn’t how the English language works.

Yep. If I strain, I can get Eli. There is no way that is Elijah.

Pretty wild to take a name with 3 letters and add 5 more

That makes so much more sense

I read that as EGG-lee. Egly was originally a last name most populous in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Then some folks gave that as their sons' first names. People gonna call that boy Egg.

If he's overweight too.. that nickname is gonna be all he hears. Had a fat, really pale kid at my school once and everybody called him Humpty Dumpty.

Or girl

We are being invaded by Eghleighyns!

I was just watching something about the greighs.

Einveighded

Ay-lee

That’s how I read it too. Sounds girly. Looks like gibberish.

It's Justin Bieber's wife

Egh, that's a tragedeigh for sure.

If Hooked on Phonics worked for me, I get "egg-lee"

I have this annoying cough at the moment. I've just realised what I've been coughing up all the time.

Rules for spelling apparently don't apply for tragedeigh parents. So why not name children simply XXX? It can pe pronounced whatever you want, Elijah, Susan, ...

Elon Musk has reached that level of stupidity already.

Are you sure it’s not Eleighgha? It’s still a sh*tty spelling, but at least it makes more sense than Eghleigh.

Oh my god

I think my brain short circuited while reading that 😂

Eghleigha

While trying to pronounce that, I went into *ekekekek* mode instead

There is no conceivable way that could possibly be pronounced “Elijah” lol

Egh-leigh Eh lee Ellie?

I can't read that as anything but Egg Leg

Haha! That makes me think of Fog Horn Leg Horn the cartoon from decades ago.

Pronunciation: "My parents were idiots"

Looks more like someone’s turned Eilidh into a Tragedeigh to me.

What a very ehdgheigh name. Cutting edge for sure!

I read "egg-lay"

I read it as eelee

That does not say Elijah. It just doesn't.

My first guess for pronunciation was like Ugly

If it’s not pronounced eggly or egglay then it must be pronounced eely. You can’t get Elijah from those letters

Not Eighleigh?

Now people are just putting letters together and making up pronunciations. Call me Hmereeix. "Mary"

Isn't that the name of the castle at the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

I thought Eggly

Ughleigh

I read that as Ellie, there is no “jah” sound in that “name”

Pronounced Eli, maybe, short for Elijah? Still a tragedeigh.

That is aylee or eh-lee In no world could that be pronounced as Elijah

I’d pronounce that as Egg-Lee

Is it Ely?

I thought it was a tragedeigh for “Hayley” with a cockney accent

I read it as Ellie. The spelling is too busy

That is closer to the Scottish female name of Elidh (pronounced Ay-Lee)

I thought it was pronounced Ellie when I read the title..

I would pronounce that EGG-ly. WTF is wrong with people?

A-Lee??

Ehhhgg—Lee? Wow..

That’s Ay-lee, by no means Elijah.

That cannot be Elijah. There isn't any way. I read it as "Ee-lee"....but also, it cannot be Elijah.

Native English speaker here, maybe I can help. That’s *Ehh-lehh*, with a lot of phlegm on the hh sounds and an Ermagerd Girl face.

I am deceased 💀 🤣

Ellie is all I see.

how about no 🫶

That kid's mom needs a Hooked On Phonics curriculum immediately

Ellie? Egglee? Ugly?? Certainly not Elijah 🤦‍♀️

If they wanted a unique spelling of Elijah then they got it horribly wrong! Eye-leigh? Effleigh?

Eggly

Your name is not Elijah. Your name is egg-Lee, or ugh-lee. Yeah. Your parents did that to you.

Eg-lee? Eye-lee?

I could maybe see one of these: ee-Lee, egg-lee, eye-Lee, ell-ee, ee-lie, egg-leg (my favorite). But no where, no where, could you get Elijah from Eghleigh.

egg lay... poor child

Fully read this as *Egg-Lee* lol

Egg.

Feighling a little Eghleigh/ Eggly recently? Then it is likeleigh you are transgender.

wdym elijah? i read that tragedeigh as ellie 😭

Poor kid will be called “ugly” instead of “Eggly” because kids are horribly mean.

I would freak out everytime I email them, because that name is an easy typo

I definitely read it as “Ellie”

Thats a horribly butchered Eli

Read it as “ay-lee” or “eh-lee”…that is not “Elijah” 😅

This person’s mom pronounces gif both ways. So clearly her son’s name should.

Would never do it because it's stupid. But Eee=Egh; Lie=Lei; Jah=g(as pronounced j) and h as (uh). Not what I would think even remotely at first. Poor kid.

I would definitely pronounce that Elly… meaning he was probably named a creative version of Eli and he lengthened it to Elijah himself. Cuz that sure as shit does not say Elijah.

Did they forget the "jah" at the end or did he just make up his own name when he realised what it was.

Egg-Lee. JFC. Poor kid.

My mind goes to “Ay-Lee” or “Eh-Lay”, probably based on my experience with Irish Gaelic. Regardless, there is no world where “Eghleigh” would be pronounced “Elijah”

My thought is this is mostly often pronounced "ugly. Eghleigh is more like Ughleigh I'm so sorry this person has to walk around with painful Elijah of this spelling. Very sad

The only way I would accept this is if it's some Irish legitimate spelling, bc it can't be English or translated lol

I read that as Ellie.

Pronounced like a Yorkshire bloke shouting for his son, Leigh.

Eggley

Ey-lay

Egh-lei-g-h E-li-j-ah Still a dumb name, but I can kind of see the vision