My Name

This was a short funny little blurb we wrote about in class about our names. We all have an interesting story involved with our names and people are always making mistakes on mine. Some of those mistakes make for a good story though!

     My parents thought they were being creative when they named Elisa. My mother's boss' daughter was named Elisa, but that sounded to French to them. In order to "Americanize" it, they changed the ending -e to an -a. And in doing that they ruined any correct pronunciation possibilities. Over the years I have been called: Eliza, Alisa, Elise, Elyse, Alisha, Alisia, LiLi, and Alicia. Some of these are no where near my real name and some of them deserve an A for effort. But in actuality, all you have to do is sound my name and you will pronounce it right. There's no silent vowels or tricky spelling. It is Elisa.