Would you tell someone they’ve misspelt their baby’s name?!

[CaptainCabinets]

A colleague has recently announced the birth of ‘Pheobe’ on Facebook and have since referred to the baby as ‘Pheobe’ several times.

Would I be awful to gently suggest the correct spelling or just hope it’s picked up on when they register the birth?!

I saw someone on fb named their child Aoife

Not pronounced Ee-fuh though....

Nope. Pronounced Oafie...like Sophie without the S

It seems as though Irish names are increasingly popular in England at the moment, complete with butchered pronunciation. I love the name So

Sorry, phone fail. I love the name Soairse but would never use it because of a Sinead I knew in school who had endless problems (& because I'm not Irish in the slightest)

I love the name Aoife but I wouldn’t use it either

1. I’m not Irish
2. I wouldn’t want me/my child go constantly say “not it’s not owfie it’s Ee-fuh”

Must be a lot easier in Irish communities

I love the name Soairse

Saoirse.

No, because they've spelt it how they like it. And with a name like phoebe or however they are spelling it, the child will go,through life having it spelt in all different ways!

@istandwithposie Good thing I won't use it then

I thought Aoife was pronounced Eefa and not Ee-fu..?

I think Aoife is quite common now that a lot of people would be able to spell it . Same as Niamh

They’ve spelt it how they like it

But I don’t think they have! I honestly think they believe that is the correct spelling of ‘Phoebe’!

I did send a text congratulating them on the arrival of Phoebe. I’ve yet to see any more FB posts appear so watch this space!

Aoife in an Irish accent generally would be pronounced E fa
soubriq Are being sarcastic?

This reminds me of when I was about 13 and read The Catcher in the Rye. I'd never seen the name Phoebe written down before so spent the whole of the novel thinking that the protagonist's sister's name was pronounced Phobe (rhymes with lobe). Oh, the shame when I realised. I won't tell you how I used to pronounce meringue when I read the Famous Five books.

Ha. I'd never heard the name Hermione before Harry P. I'd say it Her-mee-own in my head

Heard it out loud*

Me too, Tallulah! It wasn't until about 4 books in and talking about it with my mum that I found out. And then I was like, well that sounds dumb, and just continued reading hermy-own in my head.

I thought it was Her-me-own too.

I remember a post years ago by someone on a different forum.
For a reason I don’t remember he had to give a presentation. One of the words in the presentation was antelope.
He’d only read the word before.
He had a sister called Penelope.......

Haha. Fucking English language.

I know of someone who used the name. Caoimhe but pronounced it 'Cay-oh-me' 😂

Used to pronounce Hermione as Her-me-own too.

And (not a name but even so) recipe as re-sype.

I had quite a long discussion with DH that segue was segway. (as in changing from one topic to another). He hadn't made the connection with the spoken and written words.

(in fairness to him I only discovered that when reading it here)

Caoimhe but pronounced it 'Cay-oh-me'

How should it be pronounced?

...and how should scaiorsce be pronounced. I think it's s'or-sha

Caoimhe is Kee-va

Sorry! That random bunce of letters was supposed to say,Saoirse