In Russian his original name sounds more like "lee-lay" and I wanted to play with the silent suffix when spelling his name with English letters. I planned to give him a Greek silent suffix -us because we do not pronounce it in Russian but it sounds tunefully in English. BUT. I CHANGED MY MIND. 😭✌️

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Lileigh fits way better! I also wanted to note that his name has nothing to do with lily flowers 💌 I made up this name entirely and didn't think about it much, it was born from my perception of language and a concord of syllables together. And so his name is not burdened with meaning but it makes

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just a beautiful and melodious sound. So I experience his name as as a word but a non-lexical vocable like la la la 🌬️ which makes a lot of sense to me as he is a dedicated minstrel ! 💌

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