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Originally Posted by sheeny
In my opinion there is only one correct way to pronounce Halley, and that's the way Sir Edmund did. If he pronounced it Hal-lee (which seems to be the officially recognised pronunciation as far as I can tell) then that's the way it should be.
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I do recall from my pre-observing life (when I read everything I could get my hand on for 46 years) that it's unknown how Hally pronounced his own name. However, I read in one of those 800 books that there's a poem or similar from his day in which a rhyming word implied his name was then pronounced "Hawley".
You can never be too sure with English surnames, there often a bit weird.
Also, I do beleive the commonly-heard 'Hailey' comes from an association with the early rock-and-roll group 'Bill Hailey and the Comets'.