To think no one would pronounce this name right

[eastereggg]

How would you pronounce the 'name' Eieoie?

Agree with this. It is ignorant to speak as though 'phonetically' should always = English phonetics.

Ee-oh- ee? I'm sure it's not that though. It's a bit too much tbh.

YOYO

@OchonAgusOchonOh 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.
Apologies for the missing fadas.

I usually say '[name], call me [nn]' but some will persist with their version of [name]. I don't really like it but it's the best of a bad set of options. I don't know about you but I don't care about the non-standard character not being used, but the misspellings are a nuisance (admin etc), the mispronunciations hurt my ears, but worse is the rudeness that people show. The very easy [nn] often gets misspelt too.

The Welsh names I gave are basically 'impossible' if you don't speak Welsh. One of them is a popular name, but the other isn't used much.

Highly accurate - it draws directly from the data published by the Office of National Statistics. For privacy reasons only names given to three or more babies in a specific year are reported, so theoretically there could have been one or two Eieoies born every year and they would not appear in the data. It's fairly unlikely, however.

Isn't that garlic mayonnaise?

Eye-ee-oh-ee. Would probably get ellided to Yoey - like Joey with a Y instead of a J.

As 🎵 hee ha hee ha yo 🎵

Me too!

I imagine like the sound of a cat with its tail trapped in a door

McDonald

Surely you can understand that it’s a different language though? Words or names in other languages are not ‘random jumbles of letters’. It’s a horrible description as well as being inaccurate.

Okay, you don’t understand how the various letter combinations are pronounced, that’s very understandable, but it doesn’t mean someone’s name is just a haphazard muddle of letters.
It’s a you problem iyswim.

Crying at this 🤣🤣🤣 Needed a good laugh!

@SerendipityJane , It's from the data from all the births registered in a year - all the first names registered in England and Wales. The most recent data for that site is 2002.

If you registered your child as Lily Rose but call her Rose, she'll be a Lily as far as the data is concerned.

If there are fewer than three babies registered with the name, they show as a zero, so if there were 2 Eioeies registered most years, it would still be a 0. Eioeie-Rose, Eioeie-May, Eioeie-Grace etc are not considered Eioeie as far as the data is handled.

Like the football chant ?
Where did the name originate? @eastereggg

because they’re not English. Different phonic system.

2023 rather than 2002

@PuntoEBasta , I hadn't realised that it had been updated. Thanks.

Not read the whole thread so others may already have commented that they now have "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight..." stuck on permanent replay in their heads.

Agreed, my name is French and it constantly mangled by everybody in every country.
I dont take it personally and I laugh about how a five letter name can be so hard to say.

We'll go with fleur,
I get.
Flo
Flee-ur
Flower
Fleeeer
Flu-er
Flora
Floor
Effluer
Effle
Lora
Ora
Aura

And way more. For OP deffo old McDonald vibes.

It's probably "Samantha" or something, knowing Irish names.

Fuck me. I got that right (in my head).

A bust clock IS right twice a day.

That's just rude. If you tell them to call you nn, then that's what they should be calling you.

And yes, it's the rudeness that bothers me most.

Sod off.

So as well as being rude, you obviously don't know Irish names.