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eastereggg · 2025-01-07T09:47:15+00:00

How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

JustMyView13 · 07/01/2025 11:10

OchonAgusOchonOh · 07/01/2025 11:01

I have no problem with people having difficulty with how to pronounce a foreign name. However, If you are told how to pronounce it, it shouldn't be mispronounced, or at least not too badly.

When I worked in England, there was an English woman I worked with who badly mispronounced my name. I corrected her only to be told she preferred the way she said it so would continue to use that pronunciation. I was young at the time so just ignored her but my reaction would be very different these days.

And it's really no more difficult to figure out how to pronounce Irish names than any other foreign name if you make an effort. I think it's fairly safe to say that many, many French and Italian names that have not made it in to common usage in the English language are brutally mangled by English speakers. I would certainly include myself in that, which is why I always ask how to pronounce a name I'm unfamiliar with.

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I have such an ordinary ‘popular in England’ name, and people mispronounce it all the time when they’re reading it out.

It fascinates me seeing how people butcher it. I’m not gonna out myself, but there are a couple of household TV personalities with the same name. So just to say, I don’t think it’s exclusively just English people butchering names, I think it goes all ways.

I usually just laugh, and let them carry on.

Needmoresleep · 07/01/2025 11:08

Add a hyphen then X and it could be the name of Elon Musk's latest child.

Aliflowers · 07/01/2025 11:06

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/01/2025 10:40

That’s why I said ‘to my English eyes’ - did you not understand what I meant? Maybe I should have said ‘English-speaking…’

No, I wouldn’t say the same about a German or Italian name, since I did A level German, and having studied it for a while I do understand Italian spelling/pronunciation.
If you’d said Norwegian or Finnish, OTOH….

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My issue wasn’t with your “English eyes comment” rather the “those Irish names”. It was completely derogatory. You may not have intended it that way but it’s how it read.

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 11:03

Choccyscofffy · 07/01/2025 11:00

Like how? Eye oh ee? How does that rhyme with Zoe?

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Zoe - Zowie
Ioe - Eye-owie

OchonAgusOchonOh · 07/01/2025 11:01

CurlewKate · 07/01/2025 10:51

@OchonAgusOchonOh "For some reason Irish names get ridiculed on MN for being "unpronounceable" to the English, predominantly monoglot, ears/eyes"

They shouldn't, of course, be ridiculed. But they will be mispronounced. It's impossible for monoglot English people to even make an educated guess about Irish pronunciation in a way the might be able to about Italian or French names.

I have no problem with people having difficulty with how to pronounce a foreign name. However, If you are told how to pronounce it, it shouldn't be mispronounced, or at least not too badly.

When I worked in England, there was an English woman I worked with who badly mispronounced my name. I corrected her only to be told she preferred the way she said it so would continue to use that pronunciation. I was young at the time so just ignored her but my reaction would be very different these days.

And it's really no more difficult to figure out how to pronounce Irish names than any other foreign name if you make an effort. I think it's fairly safe to say that many, many French and Italian names that have not made it in to common usage in the English language are brutally mangled by English speakers. I would certainly include myself in that, which is why I always ask how to pronounce a name I'm unfamiliar with.

MigsandTiggs · 07/01/2025 11:01

eastereggg · 07/01/2025 10:56

That's how they're pronouncing it. I O E

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Then that's an unfortunate name if you live in the Caribbean, as that's how you rudely call out to someone when you don't know their name.

edited to add apostrophe

Choccyscofffy · 07/01/2025 11:00

eastereggg · 07/01/2025 10:56

That's how they're pronouncing it. I O E

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Like how? Eye oh ee? How does that rhyme with Zoe?

Scorchio84 · 07/01/2025 10:59

"One of those Irish names.." 🙄

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eastereggg · 07/01/2025 10:56

Hoppinggreen · 07/01/2025 10:52

To ryhme with Zoe - I O E

That's how they're pronouncing it. I O E

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beetr00 · 07/01/2025 10:53

@eastereggg

You are joking obviously! PP's have linked both of these.

Move on MN'ers, nothing to see here 😂

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/23397448/babys-name-people-joke-old-mcdonalds-farm-cant-pronounce/

www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/comments/15kkxnp/they_had_a_sale_on_vowels_at_old_mcdonalds_farm/

Hankunamatata · 07/01/2025 10:53

E O E
Pronounced by letter names

CurlewKate · 07/01/2025 10:53

@HugoYorway "'How do you say your first name, please?'"

Of course. But would you enjoy answering that question for the rest of your life? We chose an English transliteration of our ds's Irish name for that very reason.

Hoppinggreen · 07/01/2025 10:52

To ryhme with Zoe - I O E

Namerequired · 07/01/2025 10:52

There’s not a right way, it’s not a name surely?
eye oh? Made me think of heigh ho heigh ho it’s off to work we go, or old McDonald.

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 07/01/2025 10:51

dick!

CurlewKate · 07/01/2025 10:51

@OchonAgusOchonOh "For some reason Irish names get ridiculed on MN for being "unpronounceable" to the English, predominantly monoglot, ears/eyes"

They shouldn't, of course, be ridiculed. But they will be mispronounced. It's impossible for monoglot English people to even make an educated guess about Irish pronunciation in a way the might be able to about Italian or French names.

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 10:51

'How do you say your first name, please?'

Choccyscofffy · 07/01/2025 10:50

Weyohweyoh · 07/01/2025 10:48

I’d probably just call them Bob

Hopefully they’ll name you something else as well.

Purplecatshopaholic · 07/01/2025 10:50

Good lord! Is it Irish? If it’s used anywhere other than its home country I would say the parents really don’t like their child. I literally have no idea how you would say that! If I saw it written, I would just ask the person how they say it.

CocoPlum · 07/01/2025 10:49

notprincehamlet · 07/01/2025 09:54

Old McDonald had a farm E-I-E-O-I-E

Here to say this but too slow 🤣🤣

NigelHarmansNewWife · 07/01/2025 10:49

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 09:48

By screaming.

This made me laugh out loud, thank you. I've had a rotten sleepless night and this has made me smile.

Weyohweyoh · 07/01/2025 10:48

I’d probably just call them Bob

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 07/01/2025 10:47

God knows.
E oh E maybe.

I'd probably just ask.

CurlewKate · 07/01/2025 10:47

If it's a name from a culture I don't know, then however I was told. Otherwise Aioli.

Choccyscofffy · 07/01/2025 10:47

The Sun have already mocked the name based on a Reddit thread

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/23397448/babys-name-people-joke-old-mcdonalds-farm-cant-pronounce/