To think that this is not pronounced

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Castor, as in the boy's name.

My friend thinks it's pronounced like CasTOR

I think it's pronounced like CastER and that Caster,castor and Kaster are homophones.

I'm happy to be told I'm wrong and am being unreasonable but it's boggling my brain.

I'm having a baby in a couple of days had girls names sorted because that's what I was expecting turns out its a boy and Castor is on a very small short list

Castor isn't a human's name.

So Louise with an El in front of it is the correct pronunciation for Elouise?

Sorry to hijack your thread OP

To me, the 'castor' of castor oil, rhymes with 'car' (vroom vroom cars).

Castor, the name, is like 'KASS ter'. I have a Classics degree, and over the three years of university, this is the only way I have heard the name pronounced.

Eloise is French, so el-oh-eese. But think there's EL-OU-ISE too, and everyone seems to plump for that.

I'm almost over it now, but can honestly say I'd have chosen something else if I'd known how almost everyone would pronounce it.

It's El oh eeze.

I would say Caster op

Makes me think of a fine sugar or a revolting oil, depending on the spelling. Not a name I would choose.

If you can't have jasper op, I'd go for casper from your list, it's lovely 😊

CahstOR

I would pronounce Castor the name CASS-tuh. I don't have a rhotic accent so wouldn't pronounce the 'r' at the end. It's difficult to say either CASS-TER or CASS-TOR without stressing the second syllable - an unstressed final syllable is usually a schwa (ie the indeterminate 'uh' sound in words like 'final').

Unfortunately as castor oil I'd pronounce it CAHS-tuh (like my non-rhotic 'car'). And I'd pronounce caster as in rolly thing under sofa CAHS-tuh too.

I think Eloise is tricky because the elision between the o and the i make El-o-eez and El-oo-eez very, very similar.

How about something else, similar to Castor but easier to pronounce eg Karsten? I am a bit of a fan of Scandi sounding names though!

Well, it's the first time I've ever seen it as a name so I guess I'd be with the 'carster' variation, the same way as I'd say the sugar & the oil. Down to accent not 'correctness'.

Have you considered Fred? 😬

Does little Castor have a sibling called Senna?

What about Kester?

Fred is perfect

Needs a revival really. It's old and easy. Like Bob

(Kester is a variant of Christopher, BTW)

When I first saw Kester I thought it said keester... I thought you can't call your baby bum!!!

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I know of a baby Harris - I always think "arse" when I hear the name.

I quite like Fred but is there a train called Fred in Thomas and friends

So no names from Thomas?

I always said I was to have another boy, I would have named him Eric

Caster. And I would pronounce the oil the same way.

As a linguistics/phonology student, I must take issue with 'non-accent' however. No such thing as a non-accent.

Ok great what I meant was you cannot detect where in the UK I come from by my accent,

I'm glad you have commented does this mean I can consider you to be a sort of expert in this field?

I'd pronounce it Kass-ter I think.

Never heard the Cars-tor way.

I'm no linguist though!

Castor is French for beaver. I'd avoid it for that reason alone.

Great, are you like Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady?

Castor isn't a human's name

Castor was the mortal brother, so human