Why can't get say it right?!

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Ok, so I need a bit of advice... I have a 6 week old daughter who is literally the best thing since sliced bread! Me and my OH chose the name Erin for her which we both adore, however, the MIL can't seem to pronounce it right. Every time she says her name she pronounces it ERUN! It drives me mad! I even make a point of over pronouncing the IN part in front of her but she doesn't get the hint! How do I approach this? Or am I being too sensitive about it? It's a 4 letter name, it shouldn't be hard to get right!? Sorry for the rant (and breathe)

I should add comes out as Brijit too. Ffs.

My Mum pronounces some names oddly as well. One of my god daughters is called Nicole, my Mum manages to mangle this into Nik-oLL. I have explained how it sounds very different, but she just gets defensive and ‘oh poor me’ about it, so I just get quietly irritated by it now. I’m just very thankful it’s my god daughter & not my daughter as it would have driven me completely batshit by now.

Sometimes people can’t even hear the difference, let alone be able to say it differently. I think you have two choices, either learn to ignore it or have a proper chat to her about it. Hoping she’ll pick up on it is just going to drive you insane.

Definitely an accent thing but yes, it grates. My in laws do it too. They pronounce any name ending in "a" as "er."

So Emmer, Hanner, Olivier, Angeler, Isler, Aver, Amelier..... drives me nuts. My daughter has a name ending in A and ever since she;s been born I've wanted to scream the equivalent of "THE BABY IS EMMA NOT BLEEDING EMMER."

But I held my tongue. It's not done out of badness, they simply don't see/hear the difference.

Pronunciation will always vary from person to person, I'd say just chill out about it you know how it's pronounced that's the main thing wait till she's in school if you think your mil is being difficult...

I'd pronounce Bridget as Brijit, Stripper.
It'd sound very strange and affected if I tried to say it any other way, as it wouldn't fit with my accent or way of speaking.
Should it be Bridge-ette?

My SiL pronounces the th in my name as r. It sets my teeth on edge but it’s just his accent so I suck it up and let it go. But then I’m very fond of him. I suspect you already have negative feelings about mil and this is just a hook to hang them on.

Scottish say er-in but my bf growing up was an Erin I love that name.

My wee boy gets Erin all the time not his name lol but very similar.

Just something I have to live with Monstera. At least no one calls her completely the wrong name!

Strippervicar do some people say Brij-et? That sounds really odd in my accent! I love the name Bridget but can only pronounce it Brij-it. I've just tried numerous times but I can't do it! Sorry. It is a great name though.

I also would say Er-un. I can just about make my mouth say E-rin but it involves baring all my front teeth in a very odd manner which would definitely frighten the OPs baby

I'd say Bridge-id, incidentally, to add to the confusion!

Is it accent though? My inlaws have the same accent as everyone else who lives around her (I've moved away from my home town to here) and everyone else apart from my inlaws can say my name as I say it. They apparently can't, so they use an abridged version of my name. Which annoys me to be honest, not because they use the abridged version (which I never ever use for myself) but because they seemingly won't try and learn how to sag their dil's name.

How do you pronounce Bridget??

How do you pronounce Bridget??

All the Bridgets I’ve ever known have been pronounced Bridgit.

I’m not sure how Stripper expects it to be pronounced?

The French version is Brigitte, the Celtic version Brigid/Brigit, Scandinavian Birgitta. All with is as the second vowel.

I can say Er IN with no difficulty, but it depends where MIL is from (and how intelligent she is).

As kids we had a cat called Mendelssohn and my granny pronounced it Mendel - soan as in known. Then called him Soany. Only a cat but strangely annoying.

I would say it depends on the accent too! Your daughter has the same name as me, my Irish family and parents say Erun and English family and friends say Erin. I used to hate people emphasising er-IN as a child, but that's probably down to my accent. As an adult I don't care how it's pronounced

It seems a weird name to pronounce wrongly. SIL pronounces the last syllable of DS2's name wrongly, but we make allowances as she's getting on.

TatianaLarina well thank you for telling me I cant pronounce my own child's name.

Strippervicar Can you spell phonetically how your Bridget should be pronounced?

I have a Bridget very close to me and I genuinely can't think of any way of saying it other than "Brijit"?

My in laws mispronounce everything. So does my father. Children's names included. I don't see the issue.

Never said anything of the sort Stripper, just that the standard pronunciation and etymology indicate those who assume it would be Bridgit are justified.

I'd say Erun too, really - as someone said, it's the schwa sound you get on unstressed syllables. I'd also say Emmer, Olivier, etc, not Emm-a or Olivi-a. In fact, they sound virtually the same to me.

Not much difference between Er-in and Er-un to my ear, I'm Irish and would probably be somewhere between the two?

I'd say Brijit and wouldn't know how else to pronounce Bridget?

I also want to know how the last syllable of Mendelssohn would be pronounced if not to rhyme with known.

These may or may not settle the argument

Bridget:
www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/bridget-jones

Mendelssohn:
www.google.co.uk/search?ei=jZ27Wte4O4T4gQaW4KXQBw&q=how+to+pronounce+mendelssohn&oq=how+to+say+mendelso&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i22i10i30k1j0i22i30k1.9656.9656.0.11362.1.1.0.0.0.0.65.65.1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.65....0.aMOTJeo91wc