Names that are bad with regional accents.

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Where we live Violet become Vaa'let which doesn't sound very nice at all. DH is Aussie so some names were a no go...such as Esme....became Is-My.

Where I live - Sarah has become Say-rah. It really grates on my nerves.
Elizabeth is Lis-beth. Arg!

Hector. Bit crap without the h.

(H)Arriet,(H)Arold, (H)Annah etc - can you tell where I was born?

Any name with a th.

Marfa
Tabifa
Maffew

aaaargh

Maisie with a broad Wigan accent is pretty bad.

An old friend in Lincs: his mother chose Hugh.
Round there they say Hoo.
Only they are fond of him, so it's Hooey.
Only they don't say the H, so it's Ooey.

Hector is a bit crap even with the h IMO.

Lots of names sound awful to me in my own accent (Scottish) - particularly French names like Natalie, Amelie, Aurelie.

But I'm not keen on a lot of names with Rs in most English accents as they turn to vowels, like Claire, Laura, etc. (and my favourite, Orla)....

All a matter of taste!

Ethan = eef'n on the Isle of Sheppey.

Anythin with a hard t in or near the middle, e.g. Natalie becocomes Nahalie, or anything with a th which becomes ff. Matthew becomes Maffew. Shortene,d the t survives?: Nat and Mat.

Round here, anything with a 't' in it, or ending with a ee or a sound

So, Laura, Donna, Natalie, all out.

Mind you, a sufficiently nasty accent can ruin nay name.

Of course, don't forget the the apparent inability of anyone to pronounce 'th', so we get maffyew, jonnyfun, caffy, caffrin, beffneh etc

colditz are you in Leicester? Sounds like where I live.

I used to work in a school down in England where some of the children had that sort of... how to describe it? Posh, lazily enunciated Southern English accent. So Hugo became He-gay, Sophie was Safie, that sort of thing. I seriously misunderstood folk a couple of times.

Off topic, but I was once really confused by a woman who was being interviewed on Women's Hour about ads on the underground for cosmetic procedures, and she said 'Well, I'm always up for a good feminist pray test'. She carried on talking about pray tests, and it took a good five minutes for the penny to drop...

Ruth in broad Estuary English is "roof!"

Gallicgirl, any name with a broad Wigan accent is pretty bad

Carl in (my) Glaswegian accent, I physically cannot say it, I can't get my tongue around it.
Fortunately you don't get many Carl's here (cos it's unpronounceable?) but my head office is full of them, I dread having to speak to one of them!

Yes, Memphis! Melton, actually, but v similar accent.

Summer - my DH is broad Geordie so it comes out as summa.

I loved Lily- but only in my posh voice, not in dp's Yorkshire. He wouldn't go to elocution lessons, so we didn't use it!

Where we live, anything with a th becomes f. So my ds wrote "Happy Birfday, Efan" in a card when he was little!

Ah. I see I have been beaten to the Esturine "f"!

Harper in Bristolian

Kai in scouse

Courtney in broadest Devon

Kimberley in northern.

Makes me think of Victoria Wood.