Name horrible in my accent

@AnotherNightAnotherName on the film Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs there a character called Barry.
He's a strawberry.
Barry.
Berry.
I think that's the joke tbh 😂🍓

My surname starts with a vowel and my DM is not British and fancied Emma which in her accent would be just as written but in most British accents plus a vowel would come out as "Emmur". Think Emmur Oliver.

Luckily my DF and the local accent where I grew up do pronounce mid-word Ts so I am the equivalent of Hattie.
Except then if I go to the US I am Haddy.

In my Scottish accent, Karl would be Carol and Pearl would be Peril as a PP said. However I don't do glottal stops so Peter is safe.

I taught in England where we had a girl of Scottish parents called Catriona. They got very annoyed when it was pronounced Cat-ree-oh-na

For a decade I thought Barry from friends was called ‘Berry’

I worked with a woman who couldn't pronounce her own DD's name correctly. DD was called Siân. The accent makes that a long 'a' but the DM was from the mid West and couldn't manage a long 'a' to save her life! Every time she called her DD 'Shan' all the Welsh speakers in the office cringed.

Loved the name Pearl, but just knew she would be "Peril" here I Scotland. Such a pretty name and it's just butchered here!

I am from the NE originally, and a friend named her son Ryan, but the y is very elongated in the NE, Ryyyyan and it doesn't sound great.

Another friend always loved the name Archie, but where she is from in Scotland it would be pronounced more like Erchie, so she avoided it.

I'm from Yorkshire
I have to put an awful lot of effort in to pronounce 'H's
In fact I didn't even notice until my southern partner commented

As a Scottish person I can't say Karl, sounds like Carroll or Cal, either too much R or none at all.

An old fashioned name now but "Natalie" also sounds rough with my accent.

My daughter was in Northern Ireland staying with cousins when she was about 8. She insisted that they had a friend called Wee Urn.
She was called Erin.

Im from northern Ireland and have quite a strong accent compared to my friend who moved up here years and she would ring me or get me to voice note baby names that she messaged so she could see if she could put it on her list or not 😆

I hate the way George Clarke says 'Ah-itetcha'. He's an architect and can't even say it!

My Grandmas friend always introduced herself as 'Ellen with a haitch!

Lottie for the same reason as you

Also Fiadh which was ruled out because people would assume she was a Thea.

Yeah my friend thought this guy she knew was called Kreg and it was a name unique to the US and then discovered that’s just how Americans pronounce Craig.

I always loved the name Nathaniel but I'm irish and I don't do the "th" sound very well, so it just sounds shocking

To be fair, it depends on your Scottish accent. Plenty of us Scots can pronounce our t’s and can say Charles without the rolling r sound.

Was that in Buffy? Confused me too

I'm from Leicester and you have to be careful of any name ending -ie or -y as they're pronounced -eh in a Leicester accent...Kate-eh, Emil-eh, Alf-eh etc, I know it sounds awful but I can't pronounce them any other way without really thinking about it

DH liked Caroline for DC2 that was vetoed straight away because I used to sit opposite a woman at work and had no idea if her name was Carrie, Kerry or Carey. In a lot of American accents they sound exactly the same. We didn’t work together, I got given that desk as my team’s area was full, so never exchanged emails and never got to see it written down. Then thankfully a desk came up elsewhere and I got to move and avoid the awkwardness of trying to make small talk but not say her name!! I was delighted when my next job was on a trading floor and we all had name signs on top of our computer screens.

South west here, any name ending in A will sound like it ends in R

Yep. Totally agree with the Orla issue. I have an Orla, thought it was super easy to pronounce (my mistake maybe because lm Irish descent!) But we get lots of Awla or Ola -seriously don’t ask

I’m Irish and you should hear the way I pronounce Lady GaGa.

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My SIL struggled with her DD’s name - she is from Yorkshire (with a strong accent!) but lives in Scotland. Her DD’s name is similar to Harley. But in SIL’s accent everyone kept hearing “Halle” as in Berry 😂

We ruled so many names out because of the scouse accent. Anything with a 'ch' sound (Michaela for example) anything with an 'ee' ending and anything forrin (DH is Welsh). I really liked Gwynhafor (Guinevere) Gwenllian and Carys but DH REPEATEDLY said them to me in a mock-scouse accent until I agreed. With our surname, Carys #Ourname sounded like Carriage Clock so we chose differently 🤣