To tell my friend she is pronouncing her (future) DD's name wrong?

[ThatIsJustNotCricket]

More of a what would you do but friend is due next month and she has the name picked out.

It's a nice name but here's the thing, it's not a common name and the way she is pronouncing it is wrong.

Would you tell her?

But scone, I don't understand - ah and ar are the same sound!!! SO faht and fart would be the same!!

I'm Leinster dialect, Still definitely don't pronounce it as 'th'.

Why do people keep putting "r" in stuff?!

Ghostbusters isnt being remade, its a sequel with all female ghostbusters.

Rebecca in Ireland we actually pronounce our 'r's, so it's oar.

Which answers my question because you guys pronounce it aw, huh?

It annoys me when people pronounce Aneurin incorrectly but I don't go round telling them unless they specifically ask. Except on here that is.

ah and ar are the same sound!!! SO faht and fart would be the same!!

No, to you they're the same. To people with rhotic accents they sound very different. Pretend you're a pirate and say 'arrggh' and then put an f before it and a t after it, f-arrggh-t.

I'd read it as Day-na but I'm an x-file fan. Wouldn't even think it as Dah-na. Cara- I'd read as Kara, tara as tear-a.

Mana
Nana
Canal
Banal
Manager
Banana
Pirana
Granary

Dana It must be Dah-na

dahna or dayna are both correct.

my best friend has called her some Jacobi and AFAIK pronounces it wrong but its her business x

Dahna sounds like it would be pronounced like "Donna."

So do people actually say 'fart' like a pirate? Or 'foart'?

Maybe Dan-A rather than Dah-na. It's a better match to the rhyming words.

Gosh, phonics is so confusing, no wonder it takes so long to learn all this at school!

So do people actually say 'fart' like a pirate? Or 'foart'?

It's prounounced just like it's spelled, f-art. Or, f-are-t, if you like. How do you pronounce art?

I don't think she was saying it sounds like pirate, but that it sounds like what a pirate says, "arrr."

I think it was Danah as in that awful Irish singer but Gillian Anderson was definitely Dayna Scully. Dayna is much prettier.

I've never heard "Darnah"

My friends little lad is called Tadhg and they pronounce it Tie-g.

Key Master. Key Master. Key Master.

I say Dar-na and Dah-na exactly the same
and Dayna isn't the same but is a pronunciation I've heard before.

On this rhotic/non-rhotic stuff, those of you who do the phonetic rendering of the long/broad "a" by adding an "r' confuses the vast majority of English speakers who pronounce our "r's." To a non-rhotic speaker (British RP best example) father and farther will sound pretty much the same. To rhotic speakers, they are different; we pronounce the "r" so farrr-ther (?) for the word that means distance. So if you do "ah" to indicate the broad/long "a" instead of "ar," we are all on the same page.

When I first joined MN, in spite of the fact that I have lived in the UK (although in a mostly rhotic speaking part of it), I remember being confused when I was on a thread where people were complaining about Americans saying "lar-tay" for latte. Larr-tay? Larr-tay? I said to myself. No one in the US says that. Then the penny dropped. I had to imagine the Queen saying lartay, and then I understood. Oh, lah-tay; yes, we do say that.

But I love this stuff.

Interlude:
See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet if you are not a linguist or famous opera singer or forced to learn it under dubious circumstances at uni, and need a refresher.
And upodn.com/phon.asp for standard IPN transcription.
Might help with the clarifying pirate...

Sorry, don't know why the links didn't link. I blame my phone and I'm too lazy to try and figure it out.

Here in US
Dana = Day-na
Donna = Dahn - na