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Opinions on Sorley?

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DoveDave · 25/04/2017 19:59

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GahBuggerit · 02/05/2017 18:47

I don't like it. Reminds me of either Soreen, "outch I've banged my toe", "surely (Sorley) not" and herbs

Mycutiemarkisrubbish · 02/05/2017 18:42

How do you say sor and sore differently?!

Both come out sort of like "sawlee" in my southern accent...

SleepForTheWeek · 02/05/2017 18:29

Sorry - I just presumed every would say Sor and Sore differently but you live and learn!!

ScarletSienna · 02/05/2017 16:45

Sleep-that isn't helpful when many of us say those the same Grin
Flora's example was helpful though.

TinselTwins · 01/05/2017 01:37

even if pronounced Sorrly rather than sorely, it still sounds too close to sourly or surly both of which sound miserable/bad tempered

Alisvolatpropiis · 01/05/2017 01:31

Sleep

To people with a non-rhotic accent, they sound exactly the same.

SleepForTheWeek · 30/04/2017 20:54

I love the name Sorley - great name.

I don't understand people's confusion? Sorley and Sorely are two different words and pronounced differently.

SOREly
SORley

A friend has just had a DS and he's a Sorley - everyone here seems to love his name - although I'm in Scotland (not a name a lot of folk here have heard of before)

Prob depends where you live OP

Thereturningwonderer · 30/04/2017 20:44

I know a Sulley.

Any good?

NotAMammy · 30/04/2017 20:04

Love it, but I think i'd call him 'Sorley Boy' as that's pretty much my only frame of reference until now. totters off to google Sorley MacLean

Alisvolatpropiis · 30/04/2017 10:22

I think this is a difficult name for people with non-rhotic accents to get their head (and tongues) around.

I'm Welsh and struggling to sound out the difference between Sorely and sorely.

Puremince · 30/04/2017 08:37

Another Scot here who thought Sorley was a well known name. My DCs did at least one of Sorley Maclean's poems as part of the Higher English syllabus.

Ecureuil · 29/04/2017 18:43

17caterpillars1mouse you live about 2 miles from me Wink.
I don't think Sorley is pronounced the same though. It's more more Sorr-uh-ly

17caterpillars1mouse · 29/04/2017 08:09

I love in a place called Sawley so don't see it as a name for a child really but offers an alternative spelling that avoids the Sore association a bit

ScarletSienna · 28/04/2017 19:55

It took until page 4 and Flora's explanation for me to understand how it doesn't sound different to sorely!

Guess that must be because I do not speak properly, right YNK? Hmm

bigsnugglebunny · 28/04/2017 17:41

I know a wee little Sorley too, I think it's a lovely unusual name.

PaperdollCartoon · 28/04/2017 17:32

muthafunker I don't think I could hold back from correcting her on that one.

I've not heard the name before and I did instantly think 'sorely' but I think if I can across someone called that I'd just accept it as a name. If you like it, use it!

jellypi3 · 28/04/2017 17:22

Sounds like you are describing how he came into this world...

MiriAmmerman · 28/04/2017 17:18

I know a 3yo Sorley and it's lovely. He is Scottish though. I don't think it sounds as nice when English people (including me!) pronounce it. He was named after Sorley MacLean I believe.

Ontopofthesunset · 27/04/2017 16:53

That way (with the little vowel gap) it sounds like Sorrowly, which isn't a real word, but sounds sad rather than painful. I know it's a real name though, but the English language associations aren't great to me.

Choccyhobnob · 27/04/2017 14:15

muthafunka why isn't there a facepalm emoji!?

sexymuthafunker · 26/04/2017 18:36

We guess I depends where you live and what the local accent will make of it....

DD is at school with a girl round this way called Niamh - pronounced by the mum as Nigh-EE-mah 😬😬😬

florascotianew · 26/04/2017 15:30

Thanks natalia !

llangennith, with respect, can I suggest that you read the whole thread; there have been 4 pages so far, mostly about pronounciation....

llangennith · 26/04/2017 15:12

Too similar to Sorely and presumably pronounced the same.

NataliaOsipova · 26/04/2017 15:01

flora. Got it. Thank you!

Ecureuil · 26/04/2017 15:00

I've never heard of it (English) but just said 'sorrly' out loud and I like the sound.

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