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Name horrible in my accent

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Gemmahearts94 · 23/05/2024 16:09

Have you ever loved a name but couldn't use it because it's awful in your accent? Even if you said it properly you know everyone else you know wouldn't 😂

for me I live in a part of the country where T's are pronounced weirdly. E.g

water is (war-uh)
hunter is (hunt-uh)
bath path laugh (baff, paff, laff)

I know it's awful, but everyone I know speaks like this, I was actually talking to my friend about it earlier, she moved here when she was 8 from London and she now speaks this way too

When I was pregnant with my first daughter I loved the name Hattie, but when I said it to my partner he said it's a cute name but did you hear what you actually just said?

Hattie (Ha-ee)

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Gemmahearts94 · 23/05/2024 17:37

Needmorelego · 23/05/2024 17:10

@Gemmahearts94 are you Kettering or Corby by any chance?
The whole midlands/scots combo 😂
(I'm a "Kettrin" person by marriage)

Got me 😂😂

told you it was a give away

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RoobarbAndMustard · 23/05/2024 17:24

Norfolk? They don't sound their t's.

DahliaMacNamara · 23/05/2024 17:19

I had to rule out all kinds of names because of DH's accent. And my mother regretfully eliminated her own first choice of name for me when she heard it being screamed from a top floor window of a tenement flat overlooking the Clyde..

MrsMoastyToasty · 23/05/2024 17:15

In my local accent, Bristolian, any name ending with an "a" or an "er" tends to sound like "ur" eg Lorna sounds like Lornur. Also names with an "th" in them is pronounced as an "f"

MidnightMeltdown · 23/05/2024 17:14

My accent is pretty standard RP, but I sometimes get confused with names pronounced in other accents.

For example, it took me a long time to work out that Americans calling someone 'Terror', were in fact trying to say 'Tara'.

Needmorelego · 23/05/2024 17:10

@Gemmahearts94 are you Kettering or Corby by any chance?
The whole midlands/scots combo 😂
(I'm a "Kettrin" person by marriage)

Needmorelego · 23/05/2024 17:07

There was a TV I used to watch set in California.
There was a character I thought was called Hattie.
Turned out the character was called Haddie.
Accents are funny sometimes.

Berlinlover · 23/05/2024 17:07

I’m Irish and you should hear the way I pronounce Lady GaGa. I cringe every time I say it. Same goes for the boy’s name Grant.

Gemmahearts94 · 23/05/2024 17:05

Sometimes I hear myself and I'm like wow. I said that horrifically 😂

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Gemmahearts94 · 23/05/2024 17:05

east yes north no. But without to being to outing there's a lot of Scot's here so it's filtered into the accent over the years, I'll be honest the accent on some is fine on offers is god awful. E.g grown men sounding like 14 year old boys

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CariMaroon · 23/05/2024 16:53

I love the name Eden but after hearing my Jamaican husband say Eee-den when we were discussing baby names it didn’t get shortlisted.

girljulian · 23/05/2024 16:42

Are you in the North East, OP? I feel the same about "Hattie" -- love the look of it but my family would all say Ha-ee!

AllTheNaps · 23/05/2024 16:38

Not my accent but in laws are from West Yorkshire which rules anything out ending in "o" because of how much they hang onto their O's 🤦‍♀️

We loved Leo but would end up being Leoooooooooooooooo