SUE: Siw or Soo???

[TwatCat]

I never realised until today that people pronounce the name Sue differently. So is it:

Siw as in new or
Soo as in too?

I say Siw, but the Sue (Susan) I know, today said her name is pronounced Soo (Soosan) and I was mind blown. I always thought it was pronounced Siw (Siwsan) and our workplace was divided on the issue, about half and half of Siw vs Soo.

Testing and HairyHands,
I moved to Nottingham and struggled with the broader accents. A child on stage at the panto lived in Kirkby Woodarse and wanted a dullarse for Christmas.

My poor kids both have names ending in ie/ey. They tried to correct the first few kids who called them Billeh and Finleh. No, Billy. Finley.

And as for G'Dling Bruh Cahnsil and Buuwuu. I was flummoxed.

Ok cheesyrats we're clear on how you pronounce your name. How anybody else pronounces Susan though, is clearly open to question, variation and 152 + posts worth of discussion. (Sounds like you might have a fight on your hands if you ever visit Wales).

I'm somewhat stunned to discover that 'siw' is actually pronounced 'siw', rather than this being a colloquial rendering of another sound. Literally, like a cockney saying window 'cill' (siw).

My only remaining question, is ok but what has that noise got to do with the name Sue? The only element in common is the letter 's'.

Pugh, Pugh, Barney mcGrew
Cuthbert, Dibble and Siw.

Sue rhymes with Pugh not Poo.

Yes, I’m Welsh

Buuwuu Brilliant!

I feel your pain with the Tracey/traceh. But worse, is the total inability to say th, both my kids say baf for bath etc.

Ffs it’s not difficult to work out what OP means 🙄

Unless you’re determined to be deliberately obtuse that is.

Some of you pronounce “few” as “foo”? Really?

I literally cannot say 'siw' 😂

How do you say “few”?

Soo

Ffs it’s not difficult to work out what OP means

For the majority of the thread, apparently it is because - as always - it's very hard to hear and say a sound you've never heard or said before. Most English people have never heard or said siw before and can't fathom how to put those sounds together. It's no coincidence that the people who got it straight away are nearly all Welsh and it transpires that the op is Welsh too.

No need to roll your eyes and swear at people.

@WhatWouldDominicDo - 'tooth' is absolutely 'tuth'! Saying it the other way sound totally wrong to me! Also 'ears' and 'years' are pronounced the same.

@Mucklowe

This is my name. People with strong scouse accents say it "Siw". Everyone else says "Soo".

I’ve never heard Siw in Liverpool - everyone I know says Soo

I’m going out of my mind here and I know I’m going to spend days trying to get it into my head like the pork saga

I’ve never heard Siw in Liverpool - everyone I know says Soo
I was just thinking this as well. Lived in Liverpool for many years , always Soo. In fact I have never heard anyone, ever, pronounce it any other way.

I do however know a Siew, pronounced Syoo. She is Malaysian

Can someone please enlighten me as to how anyone can say pork without it rhyming with fork.

@CherryValance I'm not Valleys, but still
This here/this ear/this year all sound the same too.

I'm Scottish and fork has a short 'or' sound. Pork has a longer more drawn out 'oar' sound

I need a lie down - someone please do a YouTube video and direct us to it. Imagine my scouse accent saying fork and then I’m trying to say pork with an awr sound or drawn out oar sound and it’s sounding like fourk And pourrrrrrk. I’m doing welsh accents and Scottish now too- my kids think I’m mad

Foot and boot - that’s a new one too.
I say fut and boot

I’m Welsh and say pork to rhyme with poke.
Fork rhymes with talk.

However in the village two miles away, fork and pork would rhyme and the ‘r’ would be rolled.

Fut and booot here too.

Pour pore and poor are all the same
As are year and ear also also here and hear

But Sue is still Siw 🙈
Rhymes with few, pew, drew, crew, lieu, Jew grew, dew, chew.

As opposed to Sue being soo
That rhymes with poo, coo, loo, boo, moo, do, foo, ooo.

New, too, few and boo all have the same sound. And rhyme with Sue.

I’ve heard Sue pronounced almost with an h but not quite. Ssssieew almost

@TwatCat

Pour pore and poor are all the same As are year and ear also also here and hear

But Sue is still Siw 🙈
Rhymes with few, pew, drew, crew, lieu, Jew grew, dew, chew.

As opposed to Sue being soo
That rhymes with poo, coo, loo, boo, moo, do, foo, ooo.

All of those rhyme.