Would you use Arthur....

[Choccyhobnob]

....if you live somewhere people commonly pronounce th as F. I love the name Arthur but worried it would drive me nuts if people (including FIL) referred to him as Arfur and made "half a -" jokes about his name.

So if you live in Saaf London or Kent or Essex as I do, would you consider it? Also applies to other th names such as Edith, Martha, Theo!

I had to rule out Zoe as a name for DD for similar reasons. Zoe is lovely but Zer-eh isn't! So I probably wouldn't use Arthur, despite it being a gorgeous name. A middle name perhaps!

I struggle with TH sounds as English is not my first language so I personally wouldn't. I ve considered the name Willow for our daughter but I pronounce W as V as ruled it out for that reason. But if you really love the name and can live with people mispronouncing it then go for it 😊

Should be ? not ! on the end of that last sentence.

It would put me off. This pronunciation always makes me smile. When I lived in London folk laughed at my strong Irish T.
So - Three is Tree according to me. But Three is Free according to my London mate. How is my accent funny / wrong?
My Dublin FIL would say Arter to your Artur. So I wouldn't use the name either!

Nope.

Arfur, I mean!

No I am sorry I wouldn't.

I am not from the south but lived there for a few years. The th/f thing didn't really bother me much until I had kids of my own and I found myself constantly correcting their pronunciation to no avail (we haven't lived there for 5 years and dd still uses the f sound) and it has become a real bugbear now!
I love the name Arthur and can only begin to imagine the rage I would feel every time my beautiful child introduced themselves as Arfur

Grrrr. Funnily enough my half-brother's middle name is Arthur and his dad is usually an 'f' for th kind of kind of bloke but I think he manages to say it correctly....(although being a middle name I don't hear him say the whole name that often!)

I'm still scarred by a woman saying it was lucky I didn't call my baby Erin as it would be confused with the fish...

....she meant Herring but it took me a while to work that one out as they don't sound remotely similar unless of course you drop your H's and your 'ng's'!

I'm not British and frankly find that th/f pronunciation horrid so no, I wouldn't use it.

You find the normal accent of millions of people "horrid"?

I wouldn't. The th as f thing sounds fucking awful so it would be a constant source of irritation.

I'm someone who gets my f's and th's mixed up a lot, and English is my first language . I pronounce a Heather I know as 'Hevver'. I feel so common now!

I think it's fine. Plenty of people will pronounce it properly and the rest of them wouldn't bother me - people with that accent will be saying everything in the same way so my brain kind of "autocorrects" if you know what I mean! You'd have to rule out lots of names if you worry about everyone's accent, and you or your child may not live in the same place forever. Arthur is a lovely name.

I'd still use it.

I wouldn't. Or Theo (feo).

Eastenders currently has a rarely seen baby Arfur.
Personally, it'd annoy the hell out of me if I'd called named my son the lovely name, Arthur and people pronounced it wrong all the time. You have to decide if you could cope or not.