How do you pronounce Peigi?

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Simple question really, can anyone phonetically write it so I know how to pronounce Peigi?

Thanks!

Peggy with a Scottish accent

Pay-gee. It's weird, I don't like it.

How rude to say its weird, it’s an Irish name.

I would guess at Pagey but I'm assuming from other responses it's incorrect.

Peggy, but with a Scots accent. So pay-gy. Does that make sense?

I came across the name in a book written in the 1960s and thought it was PEY-gi until a character comments that they hadn't realised that Peggy (who was from one of the Scottish islands I think) spelt her name in that way. If I encountered someone I'd say Peggy until corrected!

Peggy

It's Peggy. More or less. Peggy as pronounced in English would be fine. In Irish the G is very soft.

This is based on the name of Peig (pr 'Peg') Sayers, a resident of the Blasket Islands off the coast of Kerry whose autobiography generations of Irish teens toiled over.

Quote:
“I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge. I have experienced much ease and much hardship from the day I was born until this very day. Had I known in advance half, or even one-third, of what the future had in store for me, my heart wouldn’t have been as gay or as courageous it was in the beginning of my days.”
She led an extremely hard life, whipped out of school at 12 to go and work as a servant on a farm in south west Kerry, and moved to the Islands after she married. Had eleven children; six survived.

The Dubliners singing Peigi Leitir Mor.

This thread makes me want to read the Peig Sayers autobiography. It looks fascinating. Although I can see it would be a difficult read for teenagers, as it does sound very bleak.

Haha. Whole generations of Irish people would be howling at those words as we were forced to study it at school & oh-my-God, there was never such a mournful, complaining creature. We all hated it & envied the lucky feckers who got 'Diarmuid & Grainne' instead.

In fairness, it's believed the actual Peugeot herself was fine. It was how her words were notes & presented as a book that was the problem.

This book was the bain of my leaving cert years. If you want to read it, get the English version.
This was part of the Irish curriculum, you were taught this book in Irish, we had no English version. It was one of the most depressing stories ever told. We then did our biggest exams on this then in Irish.
Looking back now with adult eyes it might be worth a new read 😄

I'm definitely derailing the tread there, sorry!

I definitely would think and say the name as Peggy, which is a lovely little name.
Taz.

It was pretty bleak, and hard to relate to as a teen. The book had the unfortunate effect of reinforcing a link between the Irish language and extreme rural poverty of a backward region in the pre modern era.

'Peig' was replaced by a book set in the 80s/90s about a teenager hooked on heroin. So one type of misery out and another in.

Scottish Gaelic pronunciation here if you click the audio link:

learngaelic.scot/dictionary/index.jsp?abairt=Peigi&slang=both&wholeword=false