If you add random extra letters into a name, don't be pissy when people mispronounce it!

@mathanxiety, are Mairi and Mhairi pronounced differently?

Her mum, Chantalle, said in an interview "We loved the name Eirlys, but her sisters have long names so we lengthened hers." I think Eirlysiane Rose is a nice name!

Her older sisters are Aurelia and Iolanthe. They sound like princesses from a 1930s storybook 🤗

The next time you meet her, tell her that people can pronounce it, but she is unable to spell it.

I have a traditional Welsh name (maternal grandparents all Welsh). I was forever correcting people who mispronounced it as a child (i would probably still be correcting people now if i ever met anyone new haha). And even worse was the people who assumed it was mispelled and would try to correct me! The spelling has now become standard for a popular mispelling of a traditional English name in America. sigh

It's Gaelic (Scots), and it's the vocative case ofbthe name Mairi.

Maire is the Irish name you're thinking of, in the nominative case. It follows the same changes in the vocative case as Mairi does in Scots Gaelic.

Mhari is the vocative case. Mairi is the nominative case.

Strictly speaking, Mhairi should never be used in the nominative sense. It should only be used when addressing someone by name.
"Her name is Mairi" = nominative.
"Good afternoon, Mhairi" = vocative. In Scots Gaelic = "Feasgar math, a Mhairi".

My DD was at school with an Eirlysiane. What the fuck??

Phelicitije

Umm - that’s a correctly spelled Irish name 🤷‍♀️

Not extra letters but a substitution in an already awful name - Chardonnai

Have they definitely not got roots in Estonia, or Hindi etc?

It's pronounced "Bob" 😂

If she's becoming angry because people who read the name for the first time are mispronouncing it or asking how to pronounce it, then she is being unreasonable. If she's correcting them and they are still getting it wrong (assuming it's someone who sees the child semi-regularly) then I can understand her annoyance.

Cabal
Cable
Car
Care
Case
Cause

Cation but education

Facade.

The rules do exist, but they're far from simple - plus, if working it out from the orthography, you'd need to have a good idea whether the word's of Germanic or Latin origin or is a loanword (and, if so, from which language).

No need to be supercilious.

I once worked with a couple who named their son Aegon, from Game of Thrones. Not quite the same as OP is describing but equally as batshit IMO. What made it worse was they had both previously been married and had adult children (with normal names) then met later in life and started again, so they weren't 'young and dumb'. They were both teachers!

I know a Rosé pronounced Rose. It gets pronounced 'correctly' more often than you'd expect, I assume people scan reading/not looking closely, but it's so pointlessly completely incorrect, it'd drive me nuts.

I've seen Avah and Oliviah recently which gives me the irrational rage. It's so pointless.

No, she's almost right. It was the actress who consulted the numerologist, when she wanted a professional name to launch her modelling career.

In cattle, c is followed by a so it’s the hard c pronunciation. In silence, c is followed by e so it’s the soft c sound. The rules make sense, just most people aren’t taught them these days.

YY 🙂 The Middle English spelling of April is Aprille, Aprill, Aperil or Aprel. They could reasonably be thought pretentious today, but they're just as legitimate as any other old-form names. Averill and Avril are synonyms.

I believe Ayprill is a Manx or Scots form.

I met two sisters who had what sounded like perfectly normal names think Emily and Joanna but they were spelled Emma-Leigh and Jo-Anna. Another woman who picked her daughter’s names from the dictionary because she thought the words looked nice. Think Enamel and Pyjamas but pronounced Enarmell and Pyjarmay.

I have also met children named after letters of the alphabet, children with unusual feminisation of masculine names and a lot of last name first names like Shaughnessy.

I think it's somewhat remiss for a school to miss-spell any of the names of the students. There really isn't any reason why that should happen. A name is spelt how it's spelt, you can't change it just because you think it looks naff.

I don't know where you got that but it's wrong, her real name is Laura Hollins

I'd say it couldn't. 'Kay' is always pronounced like that, it's not pronounced 'Ky'. So it could only really be 'Kay-lee'. It's not the best name but I'd say pronunciation wouldn't be the biggest worry.

So silly. My childs school posted some pictures and they spelt a child's name what would be the "correct" spelling, at least 4 members of her family commented really snarkily about how her name was spelt wrong and I thought, someone spelt it wrong and it wasn't the school 😂 Don't know why people get so mad when they are the ones who chose to make up their own spelling