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How would you pronounce the name....

117 replies

MamaMimi · 08/05/2009 12:37

...Catriona.

Dp and I have differing opinions on this and I just wonder what the consensus would be amongst everyone out there. Maybe it depends on where, in the UK, you come from(?)

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Hulababy · 08/05/2009 22:34

Cat-ri-oh-na

In Sheffield

Caitni · 08/05/2009 22:32

Sibh I'm on a mac...seems the joys of fadas shall remain a mystery to me for a while yet!

Caitni · 08/05/2009 22:32

Sibh I'm on a mac...seems the joys of fadas shall remain a mystery to me for a while yet!

Caitni · 08/05/2009 22:30

OK I am PSML at the "What about Gobnait" thread . Just tried to explain it to my (american) husband...he's not getting it .

Sibh · 08/05/2009 22:28

Caitni - I shall add you to my list of lovely Catherines.

alt gr plus i = í
Hey presto ...

stleger · 08/05/2009 22:27

(Shall we start a 'What about Gobnait?' thread for the craic?

Caitni · 08/05/2009 22:27

Meant Eibhlin

Caitni · 08/05/2009 22:25

Sibh I'm a Catherine from the People's Republic and you learn to ignore all the Cat-run/rin types (a big pet hate of mine ). I definitely am a "Cath-er-ine" as Cat-run/rin makes me shudder (my best friend's mum growing up called me Cat-urn, so her whole family called me Cat-urn, very annoying!) Love Eiblin (I can't do the fadas ) - I've a sister Evelyn who always loved her Irish name

Caitni · 08/05/2009 22:20

Stleger definitely more tree than tray! at Gobnait - that's the first time I've ever seen that name on t'interweb (and I knew a Gobnait at Irish College - I have many happy memories of messing around at Irish College in West Cork )

Sibh · 08/05/2009 22:19

The flipside of this is that we were really thinking of using Catherine as a name for DD2, because all the Catherines we know are lovely.

But here in the People's Republic she would have been called either Cat-rin or Cat-run which however soft the 'T' didn't quite hit the spot for us.

DD2 is now Eibhlín, which in England (though not here) opens up the not dissimilar 'Evlin /Everlin debate that has run twice in this parish in the last few weeks.

stleger · 08/05/2009 21:59

but more tree than tray? And a wee hiccupy uh after it....sitting saying it here. I will ask my dd when she arrives, she's my all Ireland pronunciation expert. (She has to use the Irish version of her middle name at Irish College, in case they call her Gobnait!)

Caitni · 08/05/2009 21:37

Stleger as a fellow rebel I had a different pronunciation

Chipmonkey I also love Cliona (loved the story of Cliona and the wave as a kid) but Clee-OH-na is just plain wrong...

stleger · 08/05/2009 21:35

HI Chipmonkey!

stleger · 08/05/2009 21:30

In the People's Republic of Cork (Up the Rebels) it is Catreena, except my dental hygenist whose father is from Donegal is more Katrayna.

chipmonkey · 08/05/2009 21:29

In Irish io is pronounced "ee"
So Cat-ree-na
It's my lovely dsis's name.

I also love Cliona but if I had used it for a dd ( I have all boys) MIL would have pronounced it Clee-OH-na and that would have driven me mad!

Caitni · 08/05/2009 21:20

Also TheFallenMadonna at that poor Sioban

Caitni · 08/05/2009 21:19

This thread is cracking me up (again) . I would honestly never have expected such a variety of pronunciations for this name.

I've got to agree with MrsMattie as I feckin' hate the trend for "Kate-Lynn". So Irish-American (see here for how popular in in the States since the 80s).

HeinzSight · 08/05/2009 21:13

I knew a Catriona and she pronounced her name

Cat ree nah

Northants/Oxfordshire area

SamJamsmum · 08/05/2009 21:11

Cat-tree-nah for sure.

TheFallenMadonna · 08/05/2009 21:10

I love Caitlin pronounced Catleen (soft t).

But it would never, ever be said like that round here.

TheFallenMadonna · 08/05/2009 21:09

I used to teach a Sioban , pronounced So-bee-an. I kid you not...

fishie · 08/05/2009 21:00

i will hold the candle for katleen. my irish friend has an accent such that he can't actually pronounce a 'th'.

Katelynn. shudder

LynetteScavo · 08/05/2009 20:58

DN is Caitriona - and we all say katrina. We're north and south and Irish.

macmam · 08/05/2009 20:58

If you want Kate Lynn just go for Kate Lynn...

pointydog · 08/05/2009 20:56

It should be Cat-leen but is now so widely anglicised to Kate-Lyn on Britain that the fight is over.