Irene - pronunciation?

[smartypants1000]

We love the name Irene, but want it pronounced eye-ree-nee. Will she spend her life correcting people who say eye-reen?

Would you spell it Irenie to avoid confusion? I think so but dh thinks not as it "looks made up"!

How does this happen? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Several Eyrenees I can think of. Irene (pronounced Eyreenee) in The Forste Saga. There was for years a woman called Irene (Eyreenee) Thomas who appeared in TV and radio programmes:
www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Irene+Thomas&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
And one of my great-aunts, who was Irene pronounced Eyreenee. I think it was considered slightly posher than the standard Eyreen.

I knew an Irene once

I said it as Ei Reen

Eyereenee in the Forsyte Saga spelt it Irene. I think it's a lovely name.

Well, thats not true, I'm 25 and Irene Handl has always been one of my favourite actresses (I was quoting some of her lines from School For Scoundrels only this morning)
I know this is a zombie thread, but the Eye-ree-nee pronunciation is SO much prettier.

I read this as E-ren as I've seen it spelt like that and pronounced like that frequently in recent times. I know traditionally it is pronounced as Eye-reen though! X

Irenée

Renée with an I in front

I still think the honourable 'Whataretheodds' person could buy herself the Oxford English Dictionary (not the simplified version) or go to her local library and check 'Irene' for herself, before being so sure in her wrongness. A good dictionary is the best source of what counts as right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable, in use or not in use.