Pronounciation of Isolde

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Title says it all :blush:

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I say ih-zol-duh :slight_smile:

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I’ve always thought it was Iz-old-uh

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I say ih-zohl-duh :slight_smile: Not sure why, that was just my first assumption when I discovered it!

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Ditto the above: ih-ZOL-duh

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I’m not sure how correct this is, but I say Ee-ZOHL-duh, which sounds similar to what I’ve heard in German but not English.

(Note: If I were in charge of global pronunciation, I would choose EE-suhl-duh.)

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… I’ve always said ih-zold :sweat_smile:

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I also have always said ee-ZOLD, I think because the other spellings and variations are [name_f]Iseult[/name_f] / [name_f]Yseult[/name_f] / [name_f]Isolt[/name_f] etc, I never even thought about pronouncing the last letter. I guess I just assumed it was decorative :laughing:

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I’d say ih-ZOL-duh. I think that was how it was pronounced in the film [name_u]Tristan[/name_u] & [name_f]Isolde[/name_f] (but, to be fair, I haven’t seen it in years).
It’s a pretty name, though I think you would probably get a variety of pronunciations.

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ih-zol-duh

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ee-sol-duh

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ee-zold, or ee-sold, although I have been aware of multiple pronunciations.

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ee-sol-duh

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Ih-solt or ih-zold like @gracegillian!

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I say it as Ee-zold!

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ee-ZOLD

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Ih-SOLD

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I-soll-duh

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ee-sold

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iz-OLD-uh, though the last syllable is very unstressed (so sometimes it sounds a bit like iz-OLD) !