is Allison's last name pronounced "go-LEE-ta" or "go-LET-a"
in my head i've been saying the former but i realized that it could be either of them
So Allison gets her last name from an arbitrary town in Southern California. I've never been there myself—it's just a random name I picked off the map because I was like "in real life Allison would be from SoCal"—but from what I've gathered the locals seem to pronounce it "Go-LEE-ta."
HOWEVER...
"Goleta" is literally just the Spanish word for schooner, as the town is named after a shipwreck that used to be visible off the coast a long time ago. "Go-LEE-ta" seems to just be a mispronunciation that's stuck and refused to go away among English speakers. The proper way to pronounce the Spanish word would be closer to "Go-LEH-ta," so that's how I pronounce Allison's last name.