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Lawliet (‘L’ from Death Note)

Pronnounced: LOW-light

“Means determind, stoic.”

- http://www.behindthename.com/submit/view.php?name=lawliet

Not sure if the writer of that definition is making it up, but having scoured hundreds of google pages I can’t find any other definitions of the name. Could have just been invented for the Manga.

I have seen the LOW-light pronunciation around a bit, but not sure of the source of that, either. Interview maybe?

Edit: Oh, here we go:

The Death Note names also suffer from the creator romanizing them himself. This means that ‘aw’ is pronounced like a long ‘o’ and ‘ie’ is pronounced like the letter ‘i’ – with no exceptions. Which makes L’s name pronounced like “Lowlight.”

- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForeignSoundingGibberish

*sigh*

I miss L.