I didn't think this name would be so unpopular

[spookybitches]

So all throughout my pregnancy, my husband and I kept our baby name choices to ourselves. My baby is now 2 months old, and nearly everyone we have met or spoken to, have mispronounced it. Granted, we haven't seen many people over the last few weeks, so now I'm starting to wonder if it's just my family or if it's really so unheard of?
My baby boy is called Cillian (DH Irish). My whole family pronounce it silly-an even when I've corrected them numerous times.
Can I ask if you would know how to pronounce Cillian? I'm worried I've set him up for a lifetime correcting people.

Yeah but she's not pronouncing it that way 🙄

You only have to look at St paddys day

@abiirthdaycake cnoc means hill! I remember! It's all coming back. I won't need to download Duolingo at this rate.

@pangur2 don't be a dick you know what I meant

I really wish that Irish wasn't mandatory in schools in Ireland. What a waste of years of my life. We should have the choice to learn it or not

Totally agree @tontie

@vgtasd why are you so aggressive?

I think having to do it until Junior Cert is ok but having to do it for Leaving Cert is a bit much. But then I would think that 'cos I'm shite at it!

@Pangur2 studying Irish has a huge impact on the rest of our lives. It defines whether we get into college or not.

Many people do not want to study it. Barely anyone uses it as adults. It should be an option for sure

@Vgtasd because I have learned social skills, and I am also a nice person

Yeah I really don't think it should affect college or anything like that. Totally unfair.

Your family are idiots. DS has a ‘far more difficult to pronounce for most English people’ Irish first name and surname, and no ones ever had an issue with pronouncing it after it’s been said once.

Featherstonhaugh Is pronounced Fan-shaw. I only know this from Inspector Lindley though

And the given name St John is pronounced Sinjun.

(A friend’s DS is Cillian. I did the radical thing of asking her how it was pronounced as I didn’t know!)

@annamaria14 awk away on and grow a set jesus what a sell out

My ds has pass Irish. He can say he likes Big Mac and chips, and he could write an essay from sixth class about an accident, with various sentences that fitted into all other possible essays.
My dd1 has excellent Irish. I think it should be ditched after Junior Cert, I feel sorry for teachers trying to teach non cooperative teenagers.

@Vgtasd if you really want some release, look up the #paddynotpatty hashtag on Twitter. Your head will explode. You'll get your fill of plastic paddies being called out for sure. It'll be cathartic.

I'm from Northern Ireland and my school didn't offer Irish as an option at all, I've had to do all my learning myself with online courses etc. I wish I'd got to do it in school when my mind was more malleable!

@Vgtasd you want to tone down that aggression! It will be good for your health

@abiirthdaycake yes but wouldnt you like to be option in school,

Rather than mandatory

OP everything @FizzyGreenWater said.

Your family are being dicks. They know full well how to say Cillian now you've told them, but they object to the fact you gave your DS an Irish name and they're being passive aggressive about it. At best they're being immature, at worst racist.

My Dad had this when I was born. Mam is Welsh and I have a Welsh name. Granny wasn't happy and rang my Dad up to complain 'what the fuck did you call her that for? How the hell am I meant to learn how to say that?' He told her to fuck off and learn it if she wanted to see any of us again.

She never mispronounced it once in my presence

Honestly I would withhold contact until the learn. No phone calls, no pictures, no updates until they pronounce Cillian's name correctly. If it continues after lockdown then no visits to see him, no cuddles. You wouldn't want silly old Granny and Grandad's memory problems to confuse DS now, would you? Oh dear, they'd better not see him then until they've learned.

You need to have a right go at them. If my PIL pull this stunt (and they may well as they've told me on several occasions that I mustn't give any of my kids a Welsh name) I will expect DH to lay down the law straight away.

Haha @Pangur2

@pangur2 another middle class sell out I'm sure. I bet you applied for an Irish passport once brexit came 🙄

Sorry - I took so long to post that I have dumped in the middle of the debate about compulsory learning of Irish!