Irish name growing up in the UK? too much of a ball-ache?

[monkeymoma]

I love Cliona, tested it on DH, he pronounced it wrong, but quickly picked up the correct pronounciation once corrected

I thought about changing the spelling, but is that a bit tacky? and IMO Cleona would be pronounced like Leona (very long O sound, wheras the O in Cliona is shorter) which I don't like

I used to have an Irish surname and it was a PAIN in the UK, however it was the type of Irish name which people still didn't get/pronounce/spell even when corrected IYKWIM, is Cliona an easier one to get, I can see it would need to be corrected once but its not that hard is it?

That's it chipmonkey. Despite one's best efforts it can be hard to pronounce something that doesn't exist in your own language.

yes chipmonkey I barely pronounce the o at all either - its quite a "quick" name IMO

I don't think people in the UK would even try to interpret a fada TBH

Can't add anything to the name discussion, but for the love of god say England when you mean England or Britain if you mean Britain. The UK includes Northern Ireland, where there are many people who can pronounce Irish names!

meh! we have welsh and scotish family so UK is more appropriate! Don't know anyone in Northern Ireland so it doesn't matter how they'ld pronouce it for our purposes

Then Britain or Great Britain is more appropriate, as that excludes NI, but includes England, Scotland and Wales.

Sorry, badtime. But a lot of Scottish people would know how to pronounce Irish names too. So probably just England and Wales, really.
( Now some Scottish person will come on and tell me that Scots Gaelic is completely different from Irish)

It's so feckin' hard to please everyone, though. I got pulled up for saying England rather than the UK when it was actually England I meant. ( Different thread, long time ago, I bear grudges)

chipmonkey, Irish people usually do say 'England' instead of 'Britain' and it drives me mental! Although I understand that's not what you did