Names you aren't sure how to pronounce

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Since we're all inside for the foreseeable future...

What are some names you're not quite sure how to pronounce? We'll see if we can help each other. But do take answers with a pinch of salt given the wide variety of accents we all have!

For me: Hebe (hee-bee?) and João leave me feeling uncertain.

Yeah now is Aine pronounced anyone?

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And how is Remus pronounced?

Fourpeasonapod
Áine is pronounced by me - as Awnyah

@fourpeasinapod Ree-mus

@LadyEloise @sageandroses thank you!

Ceri?

Ceri is like Kerry!

How are these pronounced, please:

Jago
Isolde
Iseult

Thanks!

@Keyperfect
Jago is pronounced Jay-go I believe. It's a Cornish form of James.

Is Mia “Me-ah”

And Maya “May-ah”

Maya/Mya is My-a not May-a, not that I've ever heard anyway.

There was a Maya pronounced May-a on Emmerdale a while back... it sounded all wrong, IMO it should be 'My-a'

Isolde - Izz-OL-duh
Iseult - IZult

Ceri and Kerry and Keri all sound exactly the same. All are unisex.

Jago is Jay-go, but Iago can be Yaggo or Ee-Ah-go

I would pronounce Maia and Mya ar My-a, and Maya as Maya.
Kaia and Kaiya are both the same.
Gaia - guy-ah

I know two people Sorcha, they are both from and living in Dublin.

One says her name is Sor-Ka.
The other says her name as Sor-Sha.

Personally I prefer the second way as it is much softer.

Maya should be said 'my-a'. The other way is a mistake.

Iago pron. Yaggo is welsh. The o is like the o in Not , got etc

The same goes for Guto. Gitto'

Og
Fionan
Caiohme

Iona

Iona - I own a

but, in Wales you get Iona pronounced Yonna. Usually indicates a January birthday

The other says her name as Sor-Sha.

But it's wrong. The collection of letters 'Sorcha' do not make the sounds 'Sor-sha' in Irish. 'Ch' is always a sound like the 'ch' at the end of loch see also taoiseach, cailleach, dorcha etc. Unfortunately a minority of people even Irish people, who should know better -- seem to confuse Sorcha with Seoirse, which is the Irish version of George, and pronounced roughly as 'SORE-sha'.

Thanks Mike thats interesting i know 2 ionas online and im sure they are both january birthdays!

@theschoolonthehill
I agree with @Londubh. The Sor-sha pronunciation is simply wrong in the Irish language, though a lot of people do use it. Seoirse (George) is Shore-sheh though. The first S is pronounced Sh.

@Geepipe, assuming you mean Óg (meaning young, usually added to someone's name to signify they're called after a parent or grandparent who is living) it rhymes with 'rogue'. So a boy named after his father Mícheál, might be called Mícheál Óg.

Fionnán is Fyunn-AWN. Caoimhe is either Keev-uh or Queev-uh depending on region, but there's a diphthong in the 'aoi' sound which makes is slightly more complicated than 'ee' but which I couldn't write!