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- Jaline0
yes, all of you have the typical way that dem white people pronounce it because my parents didn't speak English correctly when they first came here (a LONG time ago - they're fine now), plus there's all this superstition surrounding how many letters you put in your kids' names and what letters are used. Lame, but whatever.
Basically, it's supposed to be:
yaaaw-luh-knee
but I've had it as:
juh-lee-knee since kindergarten.
So my family pronounces it the first way (or "jawl" or "yawl" for short), and everyone else says it: juh-lee-knee
Unless they've never been corrected in how to say it, because then they'd say it the ways you guys have listed above.