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Cheryl with a ‘ch’ not ‘ash’ sound

95 replies

0None0 · 20/07/2021 06:35

Posting for a friend who asked my opinion.

I’ve never considered it before, but I am surprised to say I love it

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CoffeeRunner · 20/07/2021 21:03

I would naturally pronounce it with the Ch sound.

I'd only say Sheryl if it was spelled that way. As in Sheryl Crow.

Amdone123 · 20/07/2021 20:59

I don't care how you pronounce it, it's awful.

Stroller15 · 20/07/2021 20:32

I don't know what is going on here! Is there a different pronunciation to Cheryl than Cheryl Cole?! And is Cherry not like the fruit??

CassandraTrotter · 20/07/2021 20:20

@TatianaBis

I would always say Cheryl.

It’s a very 80s name - Sharon, Tracy, Jackie, Cheryl, Fay and Kelly would be friends.

I think Cheryl would more likely be friends with Michelle, Kerry, Leanne, Joanne, Amanda and, of course, Louise.
TatianaBis · 20/07/2021 20:16

You’re the one preoccupied with something I said pages ago. I mean ONS 🤣

KirstenBlest · 20/07/2021 20:07

Please do @TatianaBis.

TatianaBis · 20/07/2021 20:06

They were also given to babies in the 70s who were teens in the 80s 😂

I think it’s time to move on.

KirstenBlest · 20/07/2021 19:05

They are not 1970s names. They are names that were given to babies in the 1950s and 60s.

The names might still be given but were already dated.

They compare with names like Ryan or Molly now, still given but not '2021 names'.

Cheryl seems dated to me.

Maggiesfarm · 20/07/2021 18:54

This is brilliant, hilarious:

TatianaBis · 20/07/2021 18:39

@KirstenBlest

I find the Jackie one odd as I don't know any Jackies under 50. They all seem middle age - retirement age names.
Those Jackies were not 50 in the 80s!
TatianaBis · 20/07/2021 18:38

@KirstenBlest

Look at the ONS stats for those names and they were past their peak. Jackie magazine was started in the mid 1960s.

If I were to launch a magazine aimed at an average young teen, I might pick a name that would be an average young teen's name.

What point are you trying to make exactly? They were still popular when I was a teen and there were a lot of them around, thus to me Cheryl and the others I mentioned are 80s names.

If you're older and you associate them with earlier demographics so what?

MeanderingGently · 20/07/2021 17:16

My cousin was Cheryl, pronounced 'CH' and I've never ever heard of it pronounced with a 'SH' sound. Bizarre.....

Wombat64 · 20/07/2021 17:09

Another Welsh 70/80s child, definitely CHeryl...

DoTheNextRightThing · 20/07/2021 17:03

I knew a "Ch-eryl" She was forever correcting people but I don’t think it bothered her

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 20/07/2021 16:51

As pp mention, it very much depends on where you live as it is difficult to fight pronunciation - in my area of Wales, it seems to be Cheryl with a "CH" but elsewhere I have met "Sheryl's". Cherry is gorgeous but I'd be slightly worried about cherry popping jokes from boys once she became a teenager - shame though.

Classica · 20/07/2021 16:49

The triumvirate of UK pop culture Cheryls: Cheryl Cole, Cheryl from The Royle Family, and Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz fame, are all SH Cheryls.

CH Cheryl sounds clunky to me.

fallfallfall · 20/07/2021 16:40

i understand the diffence between cherry and sherry but for the life of me i can't pronounce Cheryl any other way than Sheryl. i'd have to view it as Churyl.

i'm usually very good with names and this is a tongue twister i can't "do".

KirstenBlest · 20/07/2021 16:36

I find the Jackie one odd as I don't know any Jackies under 50. They all seem middle age - retirement age names.

KirstenBlest · 20/07/2021 16:33

Look at the ONS stats for those names and they were past their peak.
Jackie magazine was started in the mid 1960s.

If I were to launch a magazine aimed at an average young teen, I might pick a name that would be an average young teen's name.

TatianaBis · 20/07/2021 15:52

I’m talking about teens who were teens at the same time as me in the 80s. So they would have been born 1970 onwards. Jackie was most certainly still popular as a name in London among my age bracket. Jackie magazine didn’t close until the 90s afair.

KirstenBlest · 20/07/2021 15:41

@TatianaBis

I wasn’t alive in the 60s but I can tell you they were very much around when I was a teen in the 80s.

My feeling is they were kids who were named after actresses - Faye Dunaway, Cheryl Ladd, Jaqueline Smith/Bisset/Kennedy. Don’t know where Sharon and Tracy came from - the US is my guess.

Maybe Tat, but they would mostly be names of girls born in the 1960s or early 70s. Jackie probably 1950s and early 60s.

Kelly is a late 70s early 80s name, and little Kelly was probably at school with Emma, Sarah, Claire, Amy, Laura and Gemma, most of whom had the middle name Louise.

KirstenBlest · 20/07/2021 15:32

Ms Booth is Chérie not Chéri.

HeronLanyon · 20/07/2021 15:21

Or chéri (chéri Blair) or cherry etc. Bloody hell it’s not straightforward !

RockingMyFiftiesNot · 20/07/2021 15:11

@HeronLanyon

rocking I agree. Even by mn standards my feared mispronunciation was a bit bizarre of me !
That said, I can imagine people asking 'is that Cherry with a ch or a sh' !!!
Simbacatisback · 20/07/2021 14:14

It is Ch?

Isnt Sh and americanism?

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