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OchonAgusOchonOh · 07/01/2025 14:13

Hellskitchen24 · 07/01/2025 14:08

I wouldn’t even attempt it. And I’m quite familiar with a lot of the Irish names, but I’ve never heard of that one.

What makes you think it's an Irish name? We do have consonants in Irish and use them. I can't think of any word or name that consists of only vowels.

Theextraordinaryisintheordinary · 07/01/2025 14:12

Eee ohhh eee

TonTonMacoute · 07/01/2025 14:09

I don't at all dislike it but she will spend the rest of her life spelling it out and correcting the pronunciation, which she might find a bit annoying.

Re the French, they have problems with some British names like Graham and Heather. The commentators of the Tour de France made a right meal of pronouncing Christopher Froome.

Hellskitchen24 · 07/01/2025 14:08

I wouldn’t even attempt it. And I’m quite familiar with a lot of the Irish names, but I’ve never heard of that one.

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 13:56

@OchonAgusOchonOh , there are some rude posts on here.
I think the Irish and Welsh name threads are usually unpleasantl

The people IRL who are rude aren't worth worrying about IMO, but the ones who mishear my name bug me because they don't realise that what they hear isn't what I day, and what they say is miles out. It tends to be getting one letter wrong, and emphasising the wrong syllable. (Think something like saying Marsaili as Marstha-Lee but worse).

ArabellaScott · 07/01/2025 13:50

I'd say 'Eye Oh Wee'

So, not far off. But it's going to be a lifetime of difficulty.

viques · 07/01/2025 13:42

eastereggg · 07/01/2025 09:47

How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

Is that you Elon? Why not go for something simple this time like Nigel, or Nigella?

Sapienza · 07/01/2025 13:38

Words and names are random jumbles of letters to the ignorant and uneducated.

MirandaBlu · 07/01/2025 13:36

If it's Estonian; the o is actually an õ, which is a different letter. I agree with you, Eieõie would be really hard for an English speaker to (who does not also speak Estonian or Finnish) to pronounce correctly.

This would be pretty close to the trad Estonian pronunciation-- A as in April + yew as in the tree + EE as in see + a as in Lisa. Emphasis on the second to last syllable. But it's not quite right; the eõ is a diphthong and it's more like yyeww-oh, but really short, if that makes sense.

SerendipityJane · 07/01/2025 13:35

PuntoEBasta · 07/01/2025 12:48

Highly accurate - it draws directly from the data published by the Office of National Statistics. For privacy reasons only names given to three or more babies in a specific year are reported, so theoretically there could have been one or two Eieoies born every year and they would not appear in the data. It's fairly unlikely, however.

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Ah, that explains why my friends son isn't there then.

Carezzamia · 07/01/2025 13:35

"isn’t that garlic mayonnaise" and "by yodelling" got me in tears

OchonAgusOchonOh · 07/01/2025 13:27

ManchesterLu · 07/01/2025 13:21

It's probably "Samantha" or something, knowing Irish names.

So as well as being rude, you obviously don't know Irish names.

BrokenHipster · 07/01/2025 13:25

ManchesterLu · 07/01/2025 13:21

It's probably "Samantha" or something, knowing Irish names.

Sod off.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 07/01/2025 13:24

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 12:48

@OchonAgusOchonOh and would assume the person with the name would give their preferred pronunciation if it became apparent that my mouth couldn't make the correct sounds.
Apologies for the missing fadas.

I usually say '[name], call me [nn]' but some will persist with their version of [name]. I don't really like it but it's the best of a bad set of options. I don't know about you but I don't care about the non-standard character not being used, but the misspellings are a nuisance (admin etc), the mispronunciations hurt my ears, but worse is the rudeness that people show. The very easy [nn] often gets misspelt too.

The Welsh names I gave are basically 'impossible' if you don't speak Welsh. One of them is a popular name, but the other isn't used much.

That's just rude. If you tell them to call you nn, then that's what they should be calling you.

And yes, it's the rudeness that bothers me most.

Butchyrestingface · 07/01/2025 13:22

eastereggg · 07/01/2025 11:15

I O E

Ey-oh-we

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Fuck me. I got that right (in my head).

A bust clock IS right twice a day.

ManchesterLu · 07/01/2025 13:21

It's probably "Samantha" or something, knowing Irish names.

Bodeganights · 07/01/2025 13:19

PuntoEBasta · 07/01/2025 11:16

I don't know if you have spent much time in France or Italy but I can cheerfully confirm that the French and the Italians are just as bad as the British when it comes to the brutal mangling of names!

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Agreed, my name is French and it constantly mangled by everybody in every country.
I dont take it personally and I laugh about how a five letter name can be so hard to say.

We'll go with fleur,
I get.
Flo
Flee-ur
Flower
Fleeeer
Flu-er
Flora
Floor
Effluer
Effle
Lora
Ora
Aura

And way more. For OP deffo old McDonald vibes.

Cranarc · 07/01/2025 13:16

Not read the whole thread so others may already have commented that they now have "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight..." stuck on permanent replay in their heads.

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 13:12

@PuntoEBasta , I hadn't realised that it had been updated. Thanks.

PuntoEBasta · 07/01/2025 13:05

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 12:58

@SerendipityJane , It's from the data from all the births registered in a year - all the first names registered in England and Wales. The most recent data for that site is 2002.

If you registered your child as Lily Rose but call her Rose, she'll be a Lily as far as the data is concerned.

If there are fewer than three babies registered with the name, they show as a zero, so if there were 2 Eioeies registered most years, it would still be a 0. Eioeie-Rose, Eioeie-May, Eioeie-Grace etc are not considered Eioeie as far as the data is handled.

2023 rather than 2002

FabulousPharmacyst · 07/01/2025 13:02

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/01/2025 09:51

Ee-oh-ee.
But perhaps it’s one of those Irish names whose pronunciation (to my English eyes anyway) bears no relation to how it’s spelt.

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because they’re not English. Different phonic system.

Randomontheinternet25 · 07/01/2025 13:00

Like the football chant ?
Where did the name originate? @eastereggg

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 12:58

@SerendipityJane , It's from the data from all the births registered in a year - all the first names registered in England and Wales. The most recent data for that site is 2002.

If you registered your child as Lily Rose but call her Rose, she'll be a Lily as far as the data is concerned.

If there are fewer than three babies registered with the name, they show as a zero, so if there were 2 Eioeies registered most years, it would still be a 0. Eioeie-Rose, Eioeie-May, Eioeie-Grace etc are not considered Eioeie as far as the data is handled.

Newtrix · 07/01/2025 12:58

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 09:48

By screaming.

Crying at this 🤣🤣🤣 Needed a good laugh!

Dreamingoftheunknown · 07/01/2025 12:57

crockofshite · 07/01/2025 12:29

but that's exactly what they are to someone who doesn't speak the language.

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Surely you can understand that it’s a different language though? Words or names in other languages are not ‘random jumbles of letters’. It’s a horrible description as well as being inaccurate.

Okay, you don’t understand how the various letter combinations are pronounced, that’s very understandable, but it doesn’t mean someone’s name is just a haphazard muddle of letters.
It’s a you problem iyswim.