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.

Nathan in East End is Knife-un

My sister's Belfast M-i-L calls her Kee-a-dee

You can't call a child Nathan where I live, it doesn't work. There is a joke round here that goes

'they called the wee boy Nathan'
'they can't call him Nathan, they have to call him something ...'

I've butchered that joke. It should be 'they can't call him nathin' [nothing] they have to call him something'

Yup madaki, that's why Carl and Pearl don't work in Scotland as we roll our Rs :)

A bloke i used to work with is from northumberland - i thought head a son named Paul as he often referred
to 'wor porl'. Turns out he had a daughter named Pearl

Glitterkitten24 I know what you mean. Karl=Carol
Darren= Darn
Daryl=Darllllll
Arghhh why so hard?
Creg really annoys me tho.

Hugo in broad West Yorkshire. No H, a flat o and something very weird goes on with the u. Unfortunately, said Hugo was one of those children who liked to run off and his mother was often to be found yelling it after him.

Another Scot who cannot say Carl properly. But then I think it is more of an English name along with Trevor, not many Trevors in Scotland.

I hate my own name as it has a T in the middle which is always dropped, drives my mother crazy and then I think well it's a rubbish so it's your fault whichever way you look at it. He he

Amelie in a Glaswegian accent is just wrong, very very wrong.

I live in Scotland but am English. A friend loves the name Archie but wouldn't use it as it would become Erchie with her family.

I was also careful when choosing names for my DC as neither DH or I have Scottish accents we did think about the way they would be pronounced locally.

Romeo in a Valleys accent : Raw-me-awwww. Horrendous.

Is everyone else reading this thread and doing all the accents?

I definitely am doing them...and agreeing!

In the Northern Irish accent Blake becomes Blee-ak. It's a shame as I wanted to name one of my DSs Blake.

Another scot here. I live in England where there are more Carl's and my heart sinks when I have to say it! I say it like carol too although I've started putting on a kind of English accent just for that name and saying kaal awkwardly

I love the name pearl but only in an English accent!

My dd is called orla. I pronounce it Orr la. dh is English and pronounces it aw la. I may also in some situations put on an English accent when introducing her as a lot of English folk have no clue what I'm saying when I say her name

I pronounce Sarah as say ra but where I live they pronounce it as seh ra.

Carl is by far the hardest though! Like others have said, my tongue does not physically work that way!

I lived in South Lancs for a while and next door had Ann-uh and Phi-buh (Hannah, Phoebe).
In Nottingham, Marie was Mree and Stuart was Stoo-ut.

I hate the way Tyrone in Corrie says Ruby

In London, names with a final L sound - often ends up a kind of mangled W e.g. Neil would be Ne-owh, Carmel would be Carm-ehw

Are there many Romeos in the Valleys these days?

Last time I was there (over 10 years) the names were fairly sensible and trad.

I am currently trying out Ptolemy in every regional accent I can think of.

Vlad! How the flip do you pronounce it!!? (Discussion on another thread...)

Mrsbungle, hilarious I may or may not go even more rhotic when people don't understand, but I'm a stubborn cow

I once had a colleague from the south of England say, when I introduced myself: 'Forgetmenots? Is that like forgetmenots?' The first one was in a really odd White Heather Club accent and the second sounded like the queen! I have a very common name. I stuck to my guns though and said 'er, I believe that's how you pronounce it, yes...'

Glasgow - "Tawll-eh-meh"
Manchester/ Hull - "Toll-eh-meh"
Texas - "Taawwwull-eh-may"
Estuary - "Toll-emm-eeeeeeee"
Can't quite work out the Belfast pronunciation yet..

It only strikes me now that Tolly from Children of Green Knowe was probably a Ptolemy. That only took me 20-odd years to work out.

From Wikipedia:

Some of the stories feature Toseland, a boy called Tolly for short...

Toseland! Who knew?

Wow SomethingOnce, that's a name that doesn't often crop up on these threads.. though I think it fits this one nicely!

Ah, was going to come on to say Fleur - DH's cousin is called Fleur and it comes out more "Flurgghhhhhhh".

Also Kyle in a Walsall/Wolverhampton accent is Coil and I agree with Amelie (or similar) being pronounced to rhyme with Saveloy .

Debbie is also "De-boy". We ruled out Lily as a potential name for DD when we mentioned it to DH's GM who said "oh, I like Lil-oy, it's a luvloy name" .