To think no one would pronounce this name right

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How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

Far from it.

Where did I say I expect anyone to know how to pronounce a random jumble of names. Point me to it I’ll wait!

I wouldn’t expect anyone to know how to pronounce some Irish names which btw aren’t a jumble if random letters but I also didn’t like them referred to as those names. I don’t know how you infer victim status from what I perceived as a derogatory comment

Makes me think of Phoebe from Friends screeching along to Ross playing Celebration on the bagpipes!

@Spidey66 I’m glad you said it 😂 that’s exactly how it sounded in my head!

I'll have a consonant please Rachel.

Ee-oy

Absolutely no idea how this is going to go down but the side discussion on this thread is reminding me of my favourite name joke:

’the incorrect pronunciation of Irish names is my pet piamh.’

Badum-tish!

We speak English in Ireland....we have the English to thank for this type of language decimation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/jyl602/amount_of_irish_speakers_in_ireland/#lightbox

@PuntoEBasta - I like that! 😆

Is this an actual name from a specific language OP, or a name someone made up?

Oh - ee

Is it made up?

I wouldn’t even attempt it! Please don’t give your kid a complicated name, it will cause them problems.

You- eye

I'd have to ask how to pronounce it, and would not necessarily remember unless I came across the name a lot. A very confusing choice for a new baby.

I just read it as Luke Littler’s walk on song tbh.

E I E I O 😅

Sorry but I can't fathom any way that that selection of letters would be pronouncable

Howling at these 😆

OK, but reddit/twitter were here a year ago.

EIEOIE : r/tragedeigh

Tragedeigh = a given name that has been deliberately misspelled or completely made up to appear more unique than it actually is.

The poor kid would be asked daily how things were down on the farm and do they still have pigs. (With accompanying animal noises.)

Now, now, that's not fair. The boys' names are usually ridiculed as "naughty boy names" rather than being unpronounceable.

True.

Yes, classrooms are more diverse these days. How horrifying.

Yanny. Or Laurel when I get older

@OchonAgusOchonOh , you didn't address the Welsh names.
Some people can't distinguish between different sounds that aren't in English, and many Welsh names have them.

I mind when people get my name 'slightly' wrong. If they read it as an English name phonetically, then it's probably tolerable. Any attempt to say it 'properly' is usually awful. I also get the wrong syllable stressed, consonant substitution or addition, and vowels transposed. Think something like Soibhan, Siobhvaun, Shivonne, Shee-vaun, Sigh-o-ban, or Catroina, Kat-ree-owna, Katrina, Kateryna etc (I'm not a Siobhan or Catriona, and my name gets much worse than those)

@crockofshite , you are rude to refer to non-standard 'English' names as 'a jumble of random letters'

@UnemployedNotRetired , something can't be 'more unique'