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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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scottishmummy · 08/05/2009 20:54

cait-linnnn long soft on latter part

MrsMattie · 08/05/2009 20:54

macmam's pron

I farking 'ate Kate-Lynn, as I have said on approx 99 threads on MN, just in case you weren't quite clear...

macmam · 08/05/2009 20:52

[Takes very deep breath] Caitlin pron Katleen soft t......
[runs for cover]

scottishmummy · 08/05/2009 20:52

i am smiling as the catriona i know is emphatic it is Cat-tree-o-na.in fact corrects "mispronunciations"

FlappytheBat · 08/05/2009 20:50

Kate-Lynn - easy!!

fishie · 08/05/2009 20:49

can we do caitlin now?

fishie · 08/05/2009 20:47

katrina. i am from london.

pointydog · 08/05/2009 20:47

oh yes, a very very long time. Like all teh pretty places in scotland.

pottycock · 08/05/2009 20:45

Same as Katrina (I'm Scots too)

FlappytheBat · 08/05/2009 20:44

I was going back a long time for that pronunciation, a girl at my primary school, who I remember to this day, was adamant that her name was Cah-tree-oh-na.

so edinburgh has obviously been anglicised for a very long time!

scottishmummy · 08/05/2009 20:42

really?have always heard it pronounced like this by catriona's.ach well then

FlyMeToDunoon · 08/05/2009 20:42

I am Scottish and have lived in various bits, known several Catrionas and they have all been
Cat-ree-naa

But I am tickled by
Cat Tree Owner

JoPie · 08/05/2009 20:41

But it IS also an Irish name, so has at least one Irish way of pronouncing, so you can't just say there is one correct way, and that is a scottish way.

pointydog · 08/05/2009 20:38

scottishm, you're wrong

scottishmummy · 08/05/2009 20:36

scottish name Cat-tree-o-na o is emphasised
catrina - ca-tree-na.no o so dont say it
phoneticallly both names

Cosmosis · 08/05/2009 20:36

My friend's sister (in Perthshire) is a Cat-ree-nah. Until I met them I would have always said Cat-ree-oh-nah (I'm english).

pointydog · 08/05/2009 20:29

lemon, we are not divided. Some of us are right and some are wrong.

Lemontart · 08/05/2009 20:28

catrina = cat-ree-nah

catriona = cat-ri-oh-nah

interesting how divided it is. Had no idea others would pronounce catriona the same as catrina.

I prefer catriona with the "oh" sounded, but both options not too bad really

not a lot of help am I ?

macmam · 08/05/2009 20:27

I didn't like to comment! However I kind of agree!!!

pointydog · 08/05/2009 20:25

shows you how anglified edinburgh has become

FlappytheBat · 08/05/2009 20:19

Cah - tree - oh - na where I used to live (edinburgh)

Sibh · 08/05/2009 20:16

Ca-Tree-uh-na hereabouts ...

My name has the "known" Celtic-weird-spelling-pronunciation thing going on Trillian and DD1 pronounces it Ver-Jorn.

macmam · 08/05/2009 20:04

Not up here it ain't but I can only inform....

Mar sin leibh!

Greensneeze · 08/05/2009 19:54

Ca TREE oh na

macmam · 08/05/2009 19:49

Following the rules of Gaelic phonics there is a proper pronounciation..it is a Gaelic name and spoken in Gaelic it is pronounced Ca-Tria-na...