Opinions on Sorley?

[DoveDave]

Thanks!

I know a 3yo Sorley and it's lovely. He is Scottish though. I don't think it sounds as nice when English people (including me!) pronounce it. He was named after Sorley MacLean I believe.

Sounds like you are describing how he came into this world...

muthafunker I don't think I could hold back from correcting her on that one.

I've not heard the name before and I did instantly think 'sorely' but I think if I can across someone called that I'd just accept it as a name. If you like it, use it!

I know a wee little Sorley too, I think it's a lovely unusual name.

It took until page 4 and Flora's explanation for me to understand how it doesn't sound different to sorely!

Guess that must be because I do not speak properly, right YNK?

I love in a place called Sawley so don't see it as a name for a child really but offers an alternative spelling that avoids the Sore association a bit

17caterpillars1mouse you live about 2 miles from me .
I don't think Sorley is pronounced the same though. It's more more Sorr-uh-ly

Another Scot here who thought Sorley was a well known name. My DCs did at least one of Sorley Maclean's poems as part of the Higher English syllabus.

I think this is a difficult name for people with non-rhotic accents to get their head (and tongues) around.

I'm Welsh and struggling to sound out the difference between Sorely and sorely.

Love it, but I think i'd call him 'Sorley Boy' as that's pretty much my only frame of reference until now. totters off to google Sorley MacLean

I know a Sulley.

Any good?

I love the name Sorley - great name.

I don't understand people's confusion? Sorley and Sorely are two different words and pronounced differently.

SOREly
SORley

A friend has just had a DS and he's a Sorley - everyone here seems to love his name - although I'm in Scotland (not a name a lot of folk here have heard of before)

Prob depends where you live OP

Sleep

To people with a non-rhotic accent, they sound exactly the same.

even if pronounced Sorrly rather than sorely, it still sounds too close to sourly or surly both of which sound miserable/bad tempered

Sleep-that isn't helpful when many of us say those the same
Flora's example was helpful though.

Sorry - I just presumed every would say Sor and Sore differently but you live and learn!!

How do you say sor and sore differently?!

Both come out sort of like "sawlee" in my southern accent...

I don't like it. Reminds me of either Soreen, "outch I've banged my toe", "surely (Sorley) not" and herbs

Sleep-it's been interesting to find out just how different our accents must all be!

Definitely! Next time I meet someone from down South I'm going to ask them to try say Sorley so I can understand the confusion!

ditto me as soon as I hear a Scottish accent!

Well I have a rhotic accent and sorely and sorley sound the exact same to me.

They sound nothing like each other if you're talking properly!
I honestly think some of you must struggle to be understood!

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The name originates from Gaelic where it is spelt Somhairlie, but pronounced the same.

Are we saying it's pronounced Sorrelly?

I quite like that if so but if I'd read it I would have pronounced it Soorly too.