Why does Louis pronounce his name Lewis?

Louis is the French spelling as is pronounced Louwie.

If he parents had wanted to call him Lewis why didn't they just spell it Lewis??

I'm all confused

Louis/Lewis/Louwie's a bit confused himself.

Why shouldn't he?

Paris is prounounced PariS by non-French speakers

And Louis is pronounced LouiS.

Yeah, but Paris and Paris (Pareee) are spelt the same. One is an English pronunciation and one is a French pronunciation.

Louis is the French spelling and is not spelt that way in English, so you example dosen't work.

Anyway, not saying he can't, I'm just wondering why?

Louis Armstrong pronounced his own name LouiS.

People pronounce things differently, think of the two distinctive ways bath and scone are pronounced. Also how many people emphasise the hard T rather than say the softer TH in Anthony. As for my name, Naomi, my father says it differently to my mother.
Names more than anything else are personal to the family, we are taugt to say them by our parents regardless of spelling.

Maybe his parents were fans of Robert Louis Stevenson?

Nobody seems to mind pronouncing his name anglicised.

Because his parents liked the spelling Louis and the pronunciation Lou-is?

Nowadays there is no right or wrong pronunciation. Outside France and parts of the UK/Ireland, Louis is generally pronounced Lou-is.

as long as it is not Louise .....jajaja

Perhaps he has ancestry from a place with French history. My SO is called John spelled Jean. He is from St Lucia where they speak "patois" - French based Creole. The official language nowadays is English. Many people speak the patois at home and day to day and use English in school and for business etc. I guess the French spelling reflects the tradition or the past and the English pronuciation reflects the present. Maybe it is somehting similar with Lewis???

My real name is Mrs Cholmondley-Featherstonhaugh-Beauchamp-Mainwaring-Marjoribanks. People never pronounce it properly.

I'm sure Louis isn't responsible for naming himself unless he was a remarkably precocious newborn. Some people are called Geoffrey or Herbert or Bronwyn and, generally, this isn't their fault.

LOL That's a fine name you have there Mrs Chumley-Fanshaw-Beecham-Mannering. Did you get it from one husband or 4? Concurrent or consecutive? I hope you meet St John soon he would be perfect for you.

Well, after Menzies, Dalziel, St Clair and Ralph, he'd be perfect!

Sorry to be a bit thick - but I'd like to know - how do you pronounce Marjoriebanks?

It does work. Louis is the English pronunciation of a French name, exactly like the way Paris is pronounced.

Lewis is a Scottish name.

It is making my husband very annoyed, that's all I can say. He HATES his name being pronounced Lewis.

I have always pronounced his name as Louwie

You are not thick "tinselgirl" --

Marshbanks apparently -- who'd have guessed that.

There are 5 Louis/Lewis in my son's year at school, 4 Louis and 1 Lewis only one is a Loo-ee

So did the man himself...

Thanks for that, thought I'd been making a fool of myself for years

Confusion goes beyond the alphabetic into the numeric world. If on the phone someone calls out a number to you as:

three-two-five-oh

would you write it down as 3250 ?
Be careful, it could be 325O.

In the IT world such accidents occur routinely and cost real money and time.
To standardise on "three-two-five-nought" would be clearer,
after you've persuaded folk to standardise Louis as Louee and not Lewis.

Great - thanks scampi You learn something new every day!