How would you pronounce Emer?

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How would you pronounce the Irish name Emer?

Just wondering if it would be mis pronounced a lot from the spelling?

Emma

Ee-ma.

Emma, and then wonder why they hadn't just used the normal spelling

Or Emma.

Em er as in er what.

Ee-mur

Eem-er.

I know a few of them.

Pressed send too soon! Because I've never heard of the Irish spelling

Ee-mer
But only from reading irish fiction. It'll be fine, you just need to tell people how it's pronounced. It's a nice name

How about the spelling 'Eimear' - pronunciation might be a little more intuitive, and I think the same? Willing to be corrected however. (I'm not Irish!) I would know how to pronounce 'Emer' but only because I would have guessed it was the same as the spelling I've mentioned above.

There are difficult Irish names and that is not one of them!
It's pronounced like it's spelt FGS!

'E' (like the letter 'E') -mer (as in mer-maid)

How on earth do people get Emma from that???

ee-mer

But with some English accents any name ending -a sounds like it ends -er so I can see why people think it's Emma. My niece is called Isla, and English relatives pronounce it Eye-ler all the time. Drives me nuts.

I thought Emma too. I'm still confused about what the real pronounciation from your comment.... Is it Er-mer ?

We don't (in English) normally sound "E" eee but as eh as in egg. So to a southern English person it's hard to see how to say it other than Emma.

I know an Emer. It is pronounced ee-mer.

This is definitely one of the easier Irish names. It's Ee-mer as outlined by LadyOrangutan above (and I'm Irish so you can take my word for it).

I am Scottish and the r is definitely pronounced.

eee-murr, but only after thought, my initial reaction was to read it as Emma.

I would say if you pick this name, be prepared for anything!

We don't (in English) normally sound "E" eee but as eh as in egg.

Do you say Crème Egg?

Extrème?

Emer is already anglicised.

Two e's on either side of an m is normally pronounced Eem.

Even pronouncing it eee mur will sound different with a southern accent as we don't roll/pronounce rs particularly. Obviously we're wrong with an Irish name but op was asking how we'd pronounce it!

The second e is a magic e, making the first e into an ee sound.
HTH

I can understand non Irish people not being able to immediately see how to pronounce a lot of Irish names but I'm a bit boggled by not being able to pronounce Emer - it is exactly as it is spelt. Think of the work 'extreme' for example. It's like the second syllable of that but with an R on the end.

Easy to see once explained but it's likely to be said Emma if you didn't know down here.

Eeemer - E like the start of extreme and it rhymes with dreamer. Very popular name in my kids school, I find it a bit old fashioned but its on the rise.

Pronunciation wise no problems saying E-mur it's just we don't role rs or pronounce them in quite the same way so it sounds a little different.