Aww poor girl on Cbeebies Birthdays with a terrible mispronounciaition

[suwoo]

Is Cerrie on drugs this morning?

Poor Siofra, had an accent over her name (don't know the proper name for it) and Cerrie called her Stofra.

Then Roby, pronounced Row-bee. Surely that would be pronounced Robbie?

Anyway, I am clearly bored. Back to work.

I know the BBC has a pronounciation unit so maybe they advised her.

I would have thought Roby would be Row Bee

But it was an accent on the i in Siofra, not a t. Like this

OK, I'll let her off on Roby, but I bet it was Robbie.

Its like her pronouncing Niamh as Ni-am or something.

I am not even Irish.

Poor little kid. Perhaps they ought to use wikipedia in future instead of their own pronunciation unit!

How is it pronounced ?

I linked to the pronounciation above Bunty.

Well I think if you are silly enough to call your child a random name that it isn't obvious how to say it - that you should write how it's said on the back of the cbeebies care ie Row Bee or Rob Bee

Never mind that, she said the word 'special' about 50 times at lunchtime. Maybe she's having a tough day.

I agree goldfishbowl. I always wonder if people do. I love listening to the crazy names on there. I remember Obi Wan once.

I think I roffled all day.

Suwoo- seriously? That's so funny. Hope it was a nickname, poor kid.

Poor child. I am feeling the pain.

Was that the same birthday time that had 'Allyce'?

Poor girl was how old - 2? prob not even noticed tbh.

Siofra is pronounced She-fra but I agree the parents should have written it phonetically on the back.

Roby pronounced Robbie - why would it be?

Romy is pronounced Row-mee.

Where there is just one consonant (in this case a 'b') separating the vowels, it usually means the first vowel is said as it sounds when reading the alphabet - so the 'o' sounds like an 'o'.

I assumed it was like Toby, so Row-Bee as she said.

Usually they're pretty good so I always assumed that the pronunciation was written on the back, obviously not in this case. Poor Cerrie probably got the card and thought, shit, shit! :o

Poor Cerrie.

I've never heard of those names and I think if you give a child a name that is unusual, then you should expect it to be mispronounced sometimes.