To think no one would pronounce this name right

[eastereggg]

How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

E O E
Pronounced by letter names

@eastereggg

You are joking obviously! PP's have linked both of these.

Move on MN'ers, nothing to see here 😂

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/23397448/babys-name-people-joke-old-mcdonalds-farm-cant-pronounce/

www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/comments/15kkxnp/they_had_a_sale_on_vowels_at_old_mcdonalds_farm/

That's how they're pronouncing it. I O E

"One of those Irish names.." 🙄

Like how? Eye oh ee? How does that rhyme with Zoe?

Then that's an unfortunate name if you live in the Caribbean, as that's how you rudely call out to someone when you don't know their name.

edited to add apostrophe

I have no problem with people having difficulty with how to pronounce a foreign name. However, If you are told how to pronounce it, it shouldn't be mispronounced, or at least not too badly.

When I worked in England, there was an English woman I worked with who badly mispronounced my name. I corrected her only to be told she preferred the way she said it so would continue to use that pronunciation. I was young at the time so just ignored her but my reaction would be very different these days.

And it's really no more difficult to figure out how to pronounce Irish names than any other foreign name if you make an effort. I think it's fairly safe to say that many, many French and Italian names that have not made it in to common usage in the English language are brutally mangled by English speakers. I would certainly include myself in that, which is why I always ask how to pronounce a name I'm unfamiliar with.

Zoe - Zowie
Ioe - Eye-owie

My issue wasn’t with your “English eyes comment” rather the “those Irish names”. It was completely derogatory. You may not have intended it that way but it’s how it read.

Add a hyphen then X and it could be the name of Elon Musk's latest child.

I have such an ordinary ‘popular in England’ name, and people mispronounce it all the time when they’re reading it out.

It fascinates me seeing how people butcher it. I’m not gonna out myself, but there are a couple of household TV personalities with the same name. So just to say, I don’t think it’s exclusively just English people butchering names, I think it goes all ways.

I usually just laugh, and let them carry on.

How does it not?

Is it really a name though? Imagine having to spell that out and explain it daily.

@eastereggg a bit like the poor child who was named abcde! prononced absidee!

Eye oh ee does not rhyme with Zoe. Just because the last bit rhymes doesn’t mean the name rhymes.

@eastereggg well come on, how is it pronounced then??

I said English speakers, not English people.

I O E

Ey-oh-we

Not sure but it does immediately make me want to sing old McDonald….

I don't know if you have spent much time in France or Italy but I can cheerfully confirm that the French and the Italians are just as bad as the British when it comes to the brutal mangling of names!

Poor kid

Yes, I know but we were discussing English speakers so I limited my comment to those.

I'd pronounce it "my-parents-are-idiots-and-allergic-to-consonants".

@OchonAgusOchonOh , However, If you are told how to pronounce it, it shouldn't be mispronounced, or at least not too badly.
Some names have sounds that don't exist in English. How bad is 'too badly'?

What would you do with a Welsh name like Pwyll or Lleucu? Both lovely names BTW but only one letter is of each is a sound you get in English.

Are you saying that something like Lack-lun is ok for Lachlan but Latch-lun wouldn't be?

@Choccyscofffy , you don't seem to understand what rhyming means.

you're coming across as a professional victim.

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to know how to pronounce a jumble of random letters - unless they are from the same country / region / village where the name originates.

I've been staring at 'Eieoie' for several minutes now, trying to find a phonetically plausible relationship between those letters and that pronunciation. It can't be done, even with diacritics. Poor child.