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Oona

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17caterpillars1mouse · 18/07/2017 20:10

What are your thoughts on Oona for a girl? Also do you prefer Oona or Una?

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dillytilly · 19/07/2017 20:26

both are beautiful !

MrsPicklesonSmythe · 19/07/2017 20:17

I love it, We had a lovely family friend growing up called Una if spell it that way. All the Una's I've met have been fun and pretty so it's a good name to me.

BroomstickOfLove · 19/07/2017 19:40

Úna because it looks nice, but slightly different from Una Stubbs.

firawla · 19/07/2017 19:39

I like the look of the Oona spelling. There was a baby called this in the bed opposite when I had dd at Christmas! Not sure the spelling they'd gone for though but I thought it was really nice and not something you hear too often

dotdotdotmustdash · 19/07/2017 19:31

In Scotland Una is pronounced Oonah.

Scot here I would definitely pronounce Una as Younah.

Jooni · 19/07/2017 19:29

It's Uma Thurman, but it's definitely an "oo" sound at the start. I didn't know it was "You-na" Stubbs either!

SumAndSubstance · 19/07/2017 19:21

I'm another English who has never heard the you-na pronunciation, not even anyone pronouncing Una Stubbs that way. What about Una Thurman? Anyway, I prefer the Una spelling.

mineallmine · 19/07/2017 19:02

Úna is lovely and far nicer than Oona. Surely people in the UK will get used to the pronunciation? There's Úna Foley from the Saturdays, not sure if there's any other well known Únas?

Best of luck with your baby.

mamalovesmojitos · 19/07/2017 16:28

Una better spelling, assuming it's pronounced ooona. It may be pronounced you-na in parts of England, but I personally have never come across this.

Caoimhe can be pronounced as Kweeva (mostly, but not confined to Southern Ireland), or Keeva (mostly, but not confined to Northern Ireland). Differing pronunciations arising from local dialects.

StarHeartDiamond · 19/07/2017 16:19

Not keen. How about Orla?

ifeellikechickentonight · 19/07/2017 16:14

I prefer spelling Una, looks neater than the double O at the beginning - I'm English near London and have never heard of this being pronounced youna, to me it would be pronounced Oona

MiniMaxi · 19/07/2017 16:02

I like Oona
Not so keen on Una mainly due to unclear pronunciation

Bubbaboo2 · 19/07/2017 14:34

There are some very angry people on Mumsnet. I genuinely don't understand it.

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17caterpillars1mouse · 19/07/2017 13:48

Intrigued how else Caoimhe can be pronounced? I know one and she's keeva so didn't realise this wasn't the only pronunciation

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MadMags · 19/07/2017 13:19

I clarified a couple of posts down, if you'd care to look. Smile

toosexyforyahshirt · 19/07/2017 13:18

And Caoimhe as Keeva. It's so smug and disrespectful, life people don't have to make the effort to just say a name right!

That IS how it is pronounced in half of Ireland! It's smug and disrespectful of YOU to tell people they can't pronounce their own names, when you have misunderstood.

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MadMags · 19/07/2017 13:17

What a strange little person you are!

😂😂😂

PeroxideBosco · 19/07/2017 13:14

If you need any more help just let me know.

MadMags · 19/07/2017 13:12

Ok, you win. I wasn't talking about Caoimhe and was instead lumping Keeva and Caoimhe into the same bracket.

I hope that's what you were after, I don't want your blood pressure climbing anymore.

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MadMags · 19/07/2017 12:53

Calm down, dear.

I know exactly what I meant, since I am, you know, me.

I had no issue clarifying, which I did.

HTH Smile

PeroxideBosco · 19/07/2017 12:51

Yeah right. You said nothing like that. All you said that pronouncing Caoimhe as Keeva was 'smug and disrespectful'. Because you clearly had no clue that's how many Irish Caoimhes pronounce it.

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