I’m sorry I do not have a lot to say. I needed to learn to say Leila. It came out like Lila. We met during her last year in college in 1990.
Her boyfriend said, “I think it’s leela.”
I said, “no that doesn’t sound right.” So, I didn’t get the correct pronunciation of her name for many years.
Dr. Seuss has that ei combination in his last name also. The faculty at his college probably made no mistake with the pronunciation of Geisel. See unofficial Biography which I wrote – God help me if there are any typos.
Finely, I imagine that you expect me to have some insight about the way in which the ei combination functions? Well, it might slow down and then resume.
P.s. I did travel through Oregon in the late spring of 1993. And, I did think at that time I was meeting a great author. Please take the Dr. Seuss Bio seriously; he did travel for a while on a motorcycle around England.
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