Micah pronounced me-kah

Of course you can tell someone they are wrong!

What about Tina? ;)

It's the 'h' on the end that makes the 'i' a long 'igh' instead of 'ee' (I'm pretty sure, anyway 😆). Tina has no 'h' so the 'i' is 'ee'. If it was spelled Tinah, I would pronounce it to rhyme with Dinah.

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But you can't just downright tell her she's wrong.

Incidentally, lots of people have to spell their name. Really not an issue

@stopwaitingforpermissiontobeyou , of course you can tell someone how to spell a name.

If someone suggested they wanted to use a 'unique' spelling of a popular name, many replies would say spell it the usual way. e.g. Leighoh/Leeo/Lio instead off Leo

Mica Paris is pronounced “Meesha” though

What about Tina? ;)

You can have an opinion on a name. What you can't do is tell them how to spell it!

Micah compares with Dinah, another biblical name

Dinah is pronounced Die-na not Dee-na

Of course it’s hard to understand - because it’s illiterate and ignorant. Just the same as saying your child is spelled Nigel but pronounced Norris.

No, it's not the same. The "I" in English, can be pronounced with a long EE or an eye sound. So Micah, although not using an ee sound, could be pronounced that way, just from looking. Similarly, Mika, which uses the eye sound, could well use the EE sound, you don't know just from looking!!

Whereas Norris and Nigel? Are clearly not pronounced the same and never ever could be mistaken for having the same sounds. Norris doesn't have a g in it etc.

I know a Micah and it's definitely My-Kah. Sounds better then meeka anyway. Think of the meerkat jokes!

Mike is pronounced like Mike... That probably why you read "Mika" as Mika.

Micah "looks" softer, with the H and the C, hence you wanting to use a softer pronunciation mee-ka.

But yes, Mye-ka is what most people will say.

And no, I’m not a pendant

Neither am I, duck

Hello. its what you put on the end that changes the pronunciation of the middle vowel, in English anyway. The confusion happens when you are also hearing derivatives in other languages which may make pronunciation different.

But, for the sake of the argument, I’ll assume we are talking about it in the English sense.

The spelling MIKA and the spelling MIKE, for example, change the pronunciation of the I due to the E. E makes the I sound change from ‘ee’ to ‘eye’

AH on the end (C or K irrelevant) works similarly. Therefore Mikah or Micah is pronounced in the English language as MY-CAH. It simply can’t be ME-CAH the language rules don’t work that way.

And no, I’m not a pendant, but I sent the thread to my DM who is a retired English Language lecturer and lifelong studier of the English language and that’s how she explained it to me. And then went on and on explaining about how the CK rather than C or K makes another different pronunciation too….

If however you are basing the naming on another language, the rules of course are different.

I’ve always pronounced this as “mee-kah”

I’m a girl and my dad named me Myka pronounced like Micah. I like having a unique name but did get the odd Meeka

I pronounced mekah as im sure there was a footballer with that pronunciation

I'd say it My-kah, like the prophet. I think both Micah and Mika are very nice names. But if you want Mee-kah, I would use the established spelling. I think most people seeing the spelling 'Mika' would automatically read it as you want it pronounced and it will save your child having to correct people all the time.

Also, I would argue it's far more ignorant to tell another person what they can call their child.

If you actually think that, I’m not sure why you’re on this forum.

Of course I understand. She says she likes the name Micah but she actually doesn’t because she doesn’t like the way it sounds. She does like the ( different) name Mika.
she could of course throw together any combination of letters and assign whatever sound to it she likes but her child will undoubtedly spend their life explaining the spelling and/or pronunciation of their name.

It's not like saying your child is spelled Nigel but pronounced Norris.
It's like saying your child is called Nigel but pronounced Niggle, or that Darcie is pronounced Darchy

You could move to a Welsh-speaking part of Wales and the Mee-ka pronunciation for Micah would work, although you'ld probably get people saying Mike-ah or Mey-k

FWIW, names like Caleb, Jacob annd Daniel get pronounced differently in Welsh (Cal-ebb not Kay-leb, Jack-ob not Jay-Kub, and Dan-yell not Dan-yull)

Ironic.

You#re being deliberately obtuse.

I know two Alicias. one is Aleesha, one is Aleesia. (sounded out like). This is not the same as Hannah and Amy, is it?

Also, I would argue it's far more ignorant to tell another person what they can call their child.

As a total aside to the pronunciation, I don't like it as a name.

Prepare for a life time of people mispronouncing your kid's name...