[KiwiMark]

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Does this bother anyone else? Elezra's first name is Eli, rhyming with "wheel-eye." His friends -- Harman, Beyamine, Greenstein, along with Farha and Doyle Brunson (on HSP) refer to him as eee-lie. But announcers such as Benza, Kaplan, Nejad, and even Shana in her intro, keep saying it like it rhymes with "belly." OMG announcers please get it right.

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I have a customer that has lived in Israel, since Eli comes from Israel I asked my customer how the name "Eli" would be pronounced. He assured me that he proper Israel pronunciation would be the one that rhymes with belly.

Maybe Eli uses either, but when announcers have asked him how it should be pronounced he told them - so they stick to the correct pronunciation, even if his friends and acquaintances don't.