To think no one would pronounce this name right

[eastereggg]

How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

Ee-Oh-Ee?

So much self-righteousness on an obviously less than serious thread.

Ay Oh Eee

Oi you. Like everyone whose name I can't remember 😳

I see what you mean but I can't make it work. œ and æ are romanised ligatures to represent diphthongs from Greek loan words, which doesn't apply to 'eo'.

@eastereggg, if it's not too late and they haven't yet registered the birth, are you close enough to the parents to say something? Iona, Oenone (ee-no-nee) or even Iolanthe might be close enough to give a similarly vowelly sound in established names.

😂

Desperate

No idea!

Many people have mispronounced or misspelled my name. I give no fucks.
(I try not to be too precious. )
And it's not Siobhan.

I have no idea how to pronounce Welsh so would ask how to pronounce it. I would do my best and would assume the person with the name would give their preferred pronunciation if it became apparent that my mouth couldn't make the correct sounds.

I'm not a Siobhán or a Caitríona but get similar levels of mangling of my name. I also find people rarely include the fada despite it being in my email signature.

For me, making a decent effort is enough but I understand everyone is different.

Poor child

Bob ?

well I am ignorant as far as names comprising random letters in a foreign language are concerned. How do you expect people to just KNOW how to pronounce words with letters that don't have the same sounds as their own language, if you've never come across them before?
It doesn't make me disrespectful. Just uneducated in that particular language.

😂😂😂

but that's exactly what they are to someone who doesn't speak the language.

Please...........DO NOT name your child thus! 😱

I'm a bit younger than @VickyEadieofThigh and was also a teacher.
Nobody is saying anything about diversity. I taught in a very non diverse area and every year we'd look at the list of the new P1 intake and try to work out how to pronounce some of the names. They were usually a made up name beginning with letter K or something from a TV programme none of us watched.

Nothing to do with diversity.

Eye o ee
Hopefully no one with any sense would inflict this name on their child!

This chart below shows zero occurrences of the name Eieoie in England & Wales every year from 1996 to 2023 based on ONS data. The ONS doesn't record names that are given to less than two babies in a year.

Eieoie - ONS

How would Trigger manage that one, I wonder.

How accurate is that ?

No, there's no f sound in it.

No one expects you to know what you don't know.

Unfamiliar names aren't "a jumble of random letters" though, and it's an awful way to phrase it.

Whoop! I got it right! Weird name tho…

No and no. Nothing like Aoife.