How would you pronounce Bleu?

You didn't ask if you were wrong you said I said that Bleu isn't pronounced Blue but Bl-er

Eh? The op asked twice if she had it wrong in her op... once she says "am I going mad or...?". The last line of her op is "...or have I got it really wrong?"

I didn't find the op obnoxious. She merely pointed out a fact; the word bleu, (as in the colour blue), in French is not pronounced blue. That is a fact. Obviously someone could name their child frank and pronounce it bob if they wished, but there is nothing obnoxious about mentioning that frank is usually pronounced frank and not bob .

suggests you think the parents are not very smart for saying and spelling a word differently

You can pussyfoot around it all you like, but if people choose a foreign word for a name, not know how to say it properly, and insist it makes a sound that it does not, we ALL know it makes them seem not very smart.
For the good reason that they are not.

"That sounded quite obnoxious and suggests you think the parents are not very smart for saying and spelling a word differently. If that wasn't your intention, then sorry, that's how it sounds."

It didn't to me, it never even crossed my mind that anyone thought the parents didn't know how it's usually pronounced.

I've got loads of time
You didn't ask if you were wrong you said I said that Bleu isn't pronounced Blue but Bl-er
That sounded quite obnoxious and suggests you think the parents are not very smart for saying and spelling a word differently. If that wasn't your intention, then sorry, that's how it sounds.

Why are people so mean about names on here. It might not be to your taste but it's not Adolf is it?

At least Adolf is a name.

Just like Paris is pronounced with the S

Paris - with the S is the English name for Paris, it is just happens to be spelt the same. Just like Londres is the way that London is spelt and pronounced in French.
I can't imagine there are many French people calling their child Londres and announcing it's pronounced London.

The most logical pronunciation of 'eu' in English would be y+oo as in feud and Europe. Saying the letter name of the first letter has so many more exceptions than occasions when it's true that it isn't a rule.

Off the top of my head I'm struggling to think of a word where eu is oo.

If I saw it written down I'd say bleugh. Definitely wouldn't occur to me it would be pronounced blue. Suspect he may have to correct this a lot.

Bleu
Gender: F Pronunciation: Like 'blur' but without the "r"
nameberry.com/babyname/Bleu/girl

I've had a google and all the pronunciation guides I can find give the correct pronunciation of the name Bleu as rhyming with the English word 'two' while the French word rhymes with 'deux'.

It's awful !

I would never use the word 'thick'. I would also never call São Paulo anything other than São Paulo either though. True that São Paulo is Saint Paul in English, but then you'd probably raise an eyebrow if you were a Portuguese speaker and St Paul's Cathedral was spelt São Paulo's Cathedral ... but of course it's pronounced the way we (the English) want it; Saint Paul's.

Seems like a good time to drop this here

tabulahrasa the most logical sound to make in English is b-l'ee as the first vowel takes the letter name (e) and the second vowel is always silent. But I guess that would be even worse than Blergh and I doubt anyone would actually do that!
Decaffstilltastesweird I don't think Saint Paul would agree that there's no English translation of São Paulo . But if people said that, or at least Sao in instead of San (San isn't even phonetically possible) but they don't, they say San and by the same logic they see Bleu and say Blue. It doesn't matter.
Clearly I'm less bothered about the way words are said, as I don't care if my children's names are anglicised and thankfully nor do they. I have an English friend of a friend who named her son after mine, mine is Tomás, she spelt it without the accent though, but says it the same. It would be rude, arrogant and pointless to correct her. English is a lot more fluid in its ability to spell all kinds of which way and say it another. Nothing wrong with that.

The baby is already named and the OP started a thread about how thick they are and everyone jumped in to indulge her is a bit .

They have gone out of their way to use the French word and mispronounce it. It's totally unecessary and just sounds a bit silly and pretentious to me
But what if they want to be original, you-neek and cultured...

Should have said Mateus, not Matteus^^ sorry.

And why is logical ok with French words like Bleu but goes totally out of the window with São Paulo or PIranha, or even worse Dalí as DARli

The thing is, there is no translation to English for any of those words. Piranha in English is Piranha. Dali in English is Dali (sorry - can't to accents on my phone). There already is a word for blue in English, which is pronounced blue, as these parents want their son's name pronounced. They have gone out of their way to use the French word and mispronounce it. It's totally unecessary and just sounds a bit silly and pretentious to me. But you don't think so and that's fine. We all have different opinions on these things.

People calling my son Matthew if he was clearly called Matteus would definitely make me though. But not you, you're fine with it. Personal taste see?

Probably "Blue" as that seems to be the conventional pronunciation for "Bleu" when it's being used as a name in an English-speaking country. I am half French, and to be honest, I am wincing more at people using 'bleurgh' as a description of the French pronunciation of the word than I am at the thought of it having a different pronunciation in a very specific context.

That isn't the sound it makes in feud...the most logical sound it makes in English is yoo or a very similar one to the sound it makes in French.

chinlop ironically people in England have called my son Matthew despite the fact that he's Mateus. It doesn't bother him because the Portuguese pronounciation of Mateus is difficult for English speakers and most will automatically say it the Polish way, which is totally different, Matthew is at least closer.

English words don't end in eu. So without prior knowledge, they could pronounce the eu as ew like they would in feud. b-l-ew, not so far fetched and could be logical. And why is logical ok with French words like Bleu but goes totally out of the window with São Paulo or PIranha, or even worse Dalí as DARli. I think people really do like to pick and choose, if it's a name slag it off, otherwise butchering foreign words is "logical".

I'd pronounce it the French way if I just saw it. I'd try to remember but find it hard as even in the context of an English sentence my brain sees it as a French word.

My English phone spell checker turned it into Blue, safari offered me bleh.

jamrock which part of the US, I'm American and have never ever heard of it! Honestly the stuff people on MN say is "popular in America" is bizarre, don't blame us for this! hmm

^yup!!

Some people do say it like that. Not everyone but some will. Just like Paris is pronounced with the S. The word is French but people don't always say it the French way

I don't think you fully understood my point. We pronounce Paris with the S because that is the logical English pronunciation of the word.

Bleu is not logically pronounced as "Blue" in English.

Some people do say it like that. Not everyone but some will. Just like Paris is pronounced with the S. The word is French but people don't always say it the French way. But ridiculing a family for their use of it is just poncy. We'll have to agree to disagree.

Bluh.