Page 4 | To think no one would pronounce this name right

Skodasuperb · 07/01/2025 12:55

McDonald

Yalta · 07/01/2025 12:54

I imagine like the sound of a cat with its tail trapped in a door

Thepurplepig · 07/01/2025 12:54

User457788 · 07/01/2025 09:50

First Post nailed it! 😆😆😆

I'd pronounce it like Eeyore.

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Me too!

BleepyBleep · 07/01/2025 12:51

As 🎵 hee ha hee ha yo 🎵

SereneCapybara · 07/01/2025 12:51

Eye-ee-oh-ee. Would probably get ellided to Yoey - like Joey with a Y instead of a J.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 07/01/2025 12:50

Isn't that garlic mayonnaise?

PuntoEBasta · 07/01/2025 12:48

SerendipityJane · 07/01/2025 12:35

How accurate is that ?

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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.

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.

2Magpies24 · 07/01/2025 12:47

YOYO

BobbyBiscuits · 07/01/2025 12:45

Ee-oh- ee? I'm sure it's not that though. It's a bit too much tbh.

verycloakanddaggers · 07/01/2025 12:44

OchonAgusOchonOh · 07/01/2025 10:01

Irish names are, for the most part, spelt pretty phonetically. As with all other languages, Irish phonetics are not the same as English phonetics so I have no idea why you would expect Irish words or names to be pronounced according to English phonetics. Would you say the same for an Italian or German word/name?

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Agree with this. It is ignorant to speak as though 'phonetically' should always = English phonetics.

BrokenHipster · 07/01/2025 12:42

Kitchenspade · 07/01/2025 09:49

Is it Irish? Efah?

No and no. Nothing like Aoife.

Newyearsametroubles · 07/01/2025 12:37

Whoop! I got it right! Weird name tho…

BarbaraHoward · 07/01/2025 12:36

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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No one expects you to know what you don't know.

Unfamiliar names aren't "a jumble of random letters" though, and it's an awful way to phrase it.

Spidey66 · 07/01/2025 12:36

Twoshoesnewshoes · 07/01/2025 10:18

ee fah

No, there's no f sound in it.

SerendipityJane · 07/01/2025 12:35

Sapienza · 07/01/2025 12:34

This chart below shows zero occurrences of the name Eieoie in England & Wales every year from 1996 to 2023 based on ONS data. The ONS doesn't record names that are given to less than two babies in a year.

Eieoie - ONS

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How accurate is that ?

3luckystars · 07/01/2025 12:35

How would Trigger manage that one, I wonder.

Sapienza · 07/01/2025 12:34

Whydoeseveryonewanttoargue · 07/01/2025 09:54

Seriously I am genuinely asking. OP is this a real name or have you made one up?

Either way that kind is in for a lifetime of mispronunciation, confusion on spelling and ridicule.

This chart below shows zero occurrences of the name Eieoie in England & Wales every year from 1996 to 2023 based on ONS data. The ONS doesn't record names that are given to less than two babies in a year.

Eieoie - ONS

Baby Names in England & Wales

Find the perfect name for your baby or spot naming trends - explore the names chosen for babies in England and Wales since 1996.

https://names.darkgreener.com/#eieoie

Bignanna · 07/01/2025 12:31

Eye o ee
Hopefully no one with any sense would inflict this name on their child!

RaraRachael · 07/01/2025 12:30

BarbaraHoward · 07/01/2025 12:09

Yes, classrooms are more diverse these days. How horrifying.

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I'm a bit younger than @VickyEadieofThigh and was also a teacher.
Nobody is saying anything about diversity. I taught in a very non diverse area and every year we'd look at the list of the new P1 intake and try to work out how to pronounce some of the names. They were usually a made up name beginning with letter K or something from a TV programme none of us watched.

Nothing to do with diversity.

MyDeftDuck · 07/01/2025 12:29

eastereggg · 07/01/2025 09:47

How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

Please...........DO NOT name your child thus! 😱

crockofshite · 07/01/2025 12:29

Dreamingoftheunknown · 07/01/2025 11:45

Ah seriously.
That’s worse than pp’s previous comment.
Irish names (or names from any country) are not jumbles of random letters!

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

VelvetUndergrounds · 07/01/2025 12:29

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 09:48

By screaming.

😂😂😂

crockofshite · 07/01/2025 12:28

trainboundfornowhere · 07/01/2025 11:51

I take it that Marsaili, Eilidh and Mhairi are just a random collection of letters then as they too stem from a language other than English. You are coming across as ignorant.

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well I am ignorant as far as names comprising random letters in a foreign language are concerned. How do you expect people to just KNOW how to pronounce words with letters that don't have the same sounds as their own language, if you've never come across them before?
It doesn't make me disrespectful. Just uneducated in that particular language.

SerendipityJane · 07/01/2025 12:25

Bob ?