Names on here that you say 'wrong'

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So, it turns out that Calliope is pronounced kah-ly-ah-pee - I just assumed is was "cally-ope" and was thinking, what an odd name to give someone

Any others?

names always sound better in American accents

Maggie, if Calliope was cal-ee-OH-pee then Penelope would be Pen-ee-LOH-pee and Persephone would be per-see-PHO-nee.

But it isn't. It's Cuh lie uh pee, just as it's puh neh luh pee and puh seph oh nee.

Yes, agreed, I was ignoring the stresses and just looking at the pronounciations.

What about Genevieve? Jen-a-veev or Jon-vee-ev (with a soft J)? Or something else entirely?

Perfectlyposed ahem.....so how do you pronounce 'Hermione'?

Her-my-o-knee ilove

Bloody hell! All these years......

You can't know things until you know them.

Yes please somebody shed a light on the accepted pronunciation of Genevieve, because it's top of my list if I have a girl, pronounced Jen-eh-veev. Unless I've got the pronunciation totally wrong, in which case it's back to the drawing board on my list...

I'd say Zhen-eh-veeve

I'm still confused about Anais, though.

Thank you Maggie for being so gracious

Apparently JK Rowling had had enough of people not pronouncing Hermione properly which is why she had Hermy-own-knee teach it to Victor Krum in Goblet of Fire.

savasana it's both Jen-uh-veev and zhawn-vi-ev. First pronunciation is the English version; second is French.

I know one of each...

Um, Esme, I only know Ezz mee. What's the other pronunciation, please?

Mairead= mor-raid we would say, emphasis on the raid.

Esme can be either ess-mee or ess-may.

Calliope makes sense. Think about Hermione and other similar names, it follows similar 'rules'

I always thought JK Rowling had misunderstood the name and had never done the Shakespeare play with it in (is it the dream?). My English teacher taught us it was Her-marn-nee at the time we were saying 'her-mi-own-nee'.

Thank you ShadowFire. Never heard of anyone called Ezz May? I guess if it's French and has an accent?

I thought Hermione was Winter's Tale

Anais is An-eye-ees.

My most revelatory revelation was Grainne. i always thought it was grain-ee but turns out it's gron-ya.

And lots of people pronounce the Polish name Malgosia mal-go-si-ah or mal-go-sha, but it's mao-gosh-ah. But Magda will do for short

Esme is Ezmay or Ezmee regardless of accent and no, not French necessarily (though it's often argued about). You get as many people who have never heard it pronounced Ezmee as you do the other way round.

I'm so confused

From now on, it's 'You child, female one' or 'Boy child, dark hair'