How many syllables...

TanyaRenee

Our boy name is Kyle... and I was just kinda thinking, is that a 1 or 2 syllable name? I can make it be either: "Kyle" or "Ky-ul"

Not that this really matters... just kinda thinking about it... I remember clapping out how many syllables our names have when I was little and was wondering what this would be!

krissyh21

Huh? Kyle is pronounced Ky-ul. How else would you pronounce it?

Cissi64

I pronounce it as one syllable but to each his own.  FWIW I have three nephews with one syllable NN.  My sister pronounces all of them with 2 usually to just be funny but it can happen if you are from the South ( I am so I can say this!)

TanyaRenee

I don't know how to type it out, haha... but I guess by putting more emphasis on the Ky and adding the "L" sound. I don't always hear the "uh" being super emphasized when it is said.

TanyaRenee

KateB1984:

I have never heard it two syllables.

I say Kyle, like I'd say I'd walk a mile, not walk a my-ul. Kyle, to me, is like Cale, but a different vowel sound, same length.

Yep... much better explanation than I attempted!! 

I hear it this way and the 2 syllable way, so that was my original question, how do you hear it.

I didn't really think about it being a regional thing, since I've heard both!

LMS05

I say it with 1 syllable, but I can understand if people use 2. 

sunnyday016

I think you're overthinking this.

jiffy-pop

krissyh21:

Huh? Kyle is pronounced Ky-ul. How else would you pronounce it?

No it's not. Using correct pronounciation, it is a one syllable word. I'm from the South (where every one-syllable word is made into two syllables) and even I know that.

EXL311

mj.reilly:

jiffy-pop:

krissyh21:

Huh? Kyle is pronounced Ky-ul. How else would you pronounce it?

No it's not. Using correct pronounciation, it is a one syllable word. I'm from the South (where every one-syllable word is made into two syllables) and even I know that.

...and I am from the North. And everyone I know says it with two. We have already established that it varies regionally.

Ky-ul is a correct pronunciation.

This is the only way I know how to say it.  I still can't figure out saying Kyle, or even mile, with just one syllable.