How would you pronounce Emer?

[D0ni]

How would you pronounce the Irish name Emer?

Just wondering if it would be mis pronounced a lot from the spelling?

[Mov1ngOn]

Emma

[WanderingTrolley1]

Ee-ma.

[WanderingTrolley1]

Or Emma.

[sooperdooper]

Emma, and then wonder why they hadn't just used the normal spelling

[AndNowItsSeven]

Em er as in er what.

[eurochick]

Eem-er.

I know a few of them.

[DoinItFine]

Ee-mur

[sooperdooper]

Pressed send too soon! Because I've never heard of the Irish spelling

[Felascloak]

Ee-mer
But only from reading irish fiction. It'll be fine, you just need to tell people how it's pronounced. It's a nice name

[miniswin]

How about the spelling 'Eimear' - pronunciation might be a little more intuitive, and I think the same? Willing to be corrected however. (I'm not Irish!) I would know how to pronounce 'Emer' but only because I would have guessed it was the same as the spelling I've mentioned above.

[LadyOrangutan]

There are difficult Irish names and that is not one of them!
It's pronounced like it's spelt FGS!

'E' (like the letter 'E') -mer (as in mer-maid)

How on earth do people get Emma from that???

[LunaLoveg00d]

ee-mer

But with some English accents any name ending -a sounds like it ends -er so I can see why people think it's Emma. My niece is called Isla, and English relatives pronounce it Eye-ler all the time. Drives me nuts.

[Primaryteach87]

I thought Emma too. I'm still confused about what the real pronounciation from your comment.... Is it Er-mer ?

[Mov1ngOn]

We don't (in English) normally sound "E" eee but as eh as in egg. So to a southern English person it's hard to see how to say it other than Emma.

[blueskyinmarch]

I know an Emer. It is pronounced ee-mer.

[CmereTilliTellYa]

This is definitely one of the easier Irish names. It's Ee-mer as outlined by LadyOrangutan above (and I'm Irish so you can take my word for it).

[blueskyinmarch]

I am Scottish and the r is definitely pronounced.

[CatNip2]

eee-murr, but only after thought, my initial reaction was to read it as Emma.

I would say if you pick this name, be prepared for anything!

[DoinItFine]

We don't (in English) normally sound "E" eee but as eh as in egg.

Do you say Crème Egg?

Extrème?



Emer is already anglicised.

Two e's on either side of an m is normally pronounced Eem.

[Mov1ngOn]

Even pronouncing it eee mur will sound different with a southern accent as we don't roll/pronounce rs particularly. Obviously we're wrong with an Irish name but op was asking how we'd pronounce it!

[Footle]

The second e is a magic e, making the first e into an ee sound.
HTH

[treaclesoda]

I can understand non Irish people not being able to immediately see how to pronounce a lot of Irish names but I'm a bit boggled by not being able to pronounce Emer - it is exactly as it is spelt. Think of the work 'extreme' for example. It's like the second syllable of that but with an R on the end.

[Mov1ngOn]

Easy to see once explained but it's likely to be said Emma if you didn't know down here.

[wigglesrock]

Eeemer - E like the start of extreme and it rhymes with dreamer. Very popular name in my kids school, I find it a bit old fashioned but its on the rise.

[Mov1ngOn]

Pronunciation wise no problems saying E-mur it's just we don't role rs or pronounce them in quite the same way so it sounds a little different.