Spelling IRISH names!

[TheNewMrs]

Hey there girls, I've been browsing this section for a while now. You ladies just LOVE the Irish names which I think is fantastic.

ALTHOUGH...... Tonnes of you are getting the spelling horribly wrong..
I don't mean to offend anyone, but if your not sure if the name you like is spelled correctly, please post it here and I will find out for you.

Its just a pet peeve, so I'l gladly help anyone who wants it find the correct spelling to the name they like.

Happy Name Hunting!

 

[xSarahM]

I'm pretty sure i've spelt Aoife right?
Please dont tell me its wrong!

 

[TheNewMrs]

Sarah its definitely right!

 

[xSarahM]

Sarah its definitely right!

Haha, thank you.
I was so scared you were going to say it was wrong after all this time

 

[fairy_gem]

Great idea! Thanks!

Although, mine is a pronounciation issue...

We loved Lorcan and it seemed like the perfect name, but then I read it was pronounced more like "lur-con" than "lor-ken" (which I had read before) and now I'm not so keen, do you know of the correct pronounciation please.

Thanks muchly

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

How do you prn: Aoife ?

 

[TheNewMrs]

Great idea! Thanks!

Although, mine is a pronounciation issue...

We loved Lorcan and it seemed like the perfect name, but then I read it was pronounced more like "lur-con" than "lor-ken" (which I had read before) and now I'm not so keen, do you know of the correct pronounciation please.

Thanks muchly

It depends where your from to be honest, I would pronounce it "Lor-kin"
My Husband would say (Lur-kin)
My cousins down south would say (Lor-con)
But in the West the would say Lor-ken

Pronounce it however pleases you, Ireland is such a wee country but we have so many accents!!

 

[TheNewMrs]

How do you prn: Aoife ?

Aoife - [Eee-Fa]

Hth

 

[Lottie86]

Brilliant thread! It really irritates me when people either can't spell the names or they anglicise the spelling of them

 

[lozzy21]

I get so many comments about Niamh's name its irritating.

"that doesent spell Niamh"," oh thats an unusual spelling" etc etc etc

Dont get me started on the people who cant get her name right when i say it!

 

[fairy_gem]

Great idea! Thanks!

Although, mine is a pronounciation issue...

We loved Lorcan and it seemed like the perfect name, but then I read it was pronounced more like "lur-con" than "lor-ken" (which I had read before) and now I'm not so keen, do you know of the correct pronounciation please.

Thanks muchly

It depends where your from to be honest, I would pronounce it "Lor-kin"
My Husband would say (Lur-kin)
My cousins down south would say (Lor-con)
But in the West the would say Lor-ken

Pronounce it however pleases you, Ireland is such a wee country but we have so many accents!!

Brilliant thank you!, I didn't want to use it and pronounce it wrong, I felt it should only be pronounced in the correct way not in a made up way, I feel it would be a tad disrespectful, if you know what I mean. But all is good again if I can use "Lor-ken"!!, whoop whoop!!.

 

[Lucy22]

Yay, another Irish lady
It doesn't feel like there are any Irish ladies on here at all!
It irritates me too though

 

[mushroom]

I wouldn't say it's a problem of spelling them wrong..more a case of deliberate anglicisation. Personally, the names should NOT be anglicised IN Ireland, but I'm a bit more open-minded as to how they are spelled abroad, and the majority of members are obviously from the UK and US. I know 'Neev; is despised and doesn't look near as pretty as Niamh..but spellings like Keira and Kieran have become perfectly normal and I see no problem with that. Even IN Irish the spellings are so varying..Aoife itself which you would think is fairly standard can be spelled and has been historically as Aoiffe. And then you get into Maeve/Maebh/Meabh/Meabhdh and Saive/Sadbh/Sadhbh! You can see why the first spelling instead of the third/fourth would appeal to people.

Pronouncing them wrong is a different story! I'm very passionate about that and have created threads advising on the pronunication of LOADS of Irish names.

I would pronounce Lorcan as Loor-kun. It is definitely not the 'o' sound in 'orange', it's similar to that of 'look' but with more emphasis. My own accent is completely netral so that does not effect it...I don't have a regional/country/city accent at all.

 

[TheNewMrs]

I wouldn't say it's a problem of spelling them wrong..more a case of deliberate anglicisation. Personally, the names should NOT be anglicised IN Ireland, but I'm a bit more open-minded as to how they are spelled abroad, and the majority of members are obviously from the UK and US. I know 'Neev; is despised and doesn't look near as pretty as Niamh..but spellings like Keira and Kieran have become perfectly normal and I see no problem with that. Even IN Irish the spellings are so varying..Aoife itself which you would think is fairly standard can be spelled and has been historically as Aoiffe. And then you get into Maeve/Maebh/Meabh/Meabhdh and Saive/Sadbh/Sadhbh! You can see why the first spelling instead of the third/fourth would appeal to people.

Pronouncing them wrong is a different story! I'm very passionate about that and have created threads advising on the pronunication of LOADS of Irish names.

I would pronounce Lorcan as Loor-kun. It is definitely not the 'o' sound in 'orange', it's similar to that of 'look' but with more emphasis. My own accent is completely netral so that does not effect it...I don't have a regional/country/city accent at all.

Yep, as I said in the opening post, its only for people who actually DO want to know the CORRECT spelling....

 

[TheNewMrs]

Yay, another Irish lady
It doesn't feel like there are any Irish ladies on here at all!
It irritates me too though

YEAy!!!
I'm Irish-AND PROUD!

Delighted to meet another Irish Chick, Congrats on your pregnancy...

 

[sun]

I get so many comments about Niamh's name its irritating.

"that doesent spell Niamh"," oh thats an unusual spelling" etc etc etc

Dont get me started on the people who cant get her name right when i say it!

I have been on BnB for 2 years and heard this name tons (only here though, never heard it where I live) and just found out the pronunciation yesterday!
The funny thing is the non-irish spelling for this name is my OH's top pick for our LO - I didn't even know they were the same name!

 

[Julia323]

I get so many comments about Niamh's name its irritating.

"that doesent spell Niamh"," oh thats an unusual spelling" etc etc etc

Dont get me started on the people who cant get her name right when i say it!

Naimh is one of my favourite names, it's so gorgeous! But I think if I used it here I'd get looked at like I had three heads. No one would have a clue how to pronounce it, and when they found out they'd think it's crazy.

If I had more than 1/8 of anything close to Irish in me I'd consider being more open to using (and defending proper spelling) but I probably won't use it to save the hassle. I'll continue to love it on other babies!

 

[Lucy22]

Any of the other Irish ladies notice that about 80% of names listed on name sites as "Irish" are either not Irish at all, or completely unheard of?
I mean, just tonight, I found "Aghavilla", as a girls name. Anyone else heard of this?
I also found Alastrina, Chrissy and Choncobarra in the same section

 

[TheNewMrs]

I know right!!! Apparently cobalt is Irish too!!! Lol!! X

 

[lozzy21]

I get so many comments about Niamh's name its irritating.

"that doesent spell Niamh"," oh thats an unusual spelling" etc etc etc

Dont get me started on the people who cant get her name right when i say it!

I have been on BnB for 2 years and heard this name tons (only here though, never heard it where I live) and just found out the pronunciation yesterday!
The funny thing is the non-irish spelling for this name is my OH's top pick for our LO - I didn't even know they were the same name!

When she was born you could tell who knew how to pronounce it and who dident, the ones that knew how it was pronounced called her by the name and the ones that dident called her baby (my surname)