Anybody know how to pronounce this?

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Aoalheiour. I don't want to Youtube it as many of those are questionable computer-generated attempts. It's an Icelandic name.

No idea, sorry. I also struggle with Irish names, too many vowels! Really difficult to spell too. However if it is meaningful to you, go for it. I have an Italian name, pretty standard, but have had to tell everyone how to spell it my entire life, and it's not even tricky!

Sort of like Alvor would be my guess

I don't know but I was wondering the same! I saw it in a BBC News report yesterday.

It's Aðalheiður, a version of Adelaide. Wherever you saw it, they weren't able to handle the Icelandic letters.

It's pronounced AH-thahl-hay-thur (with voiced th, as is 'this'). Look it up on forvo.com, but spell it correctly.

Ah-ol-hey-oor (ish)?
The spelling is not right. See @puff's post
Athalheythirr, th like in them

Icelandic has two letters which are both 'th' in English but they are different sounds.

Ð is 'th' as in 'this', 'weather'.

Þ is 'th' as in 'thick', 'path'.

People often see these letters and become alarmed and write/say something completely random 😆

Computer systems often struggle with them too.

@Puffinshop thank you very much! I was hoping someone on Baby Names had different linguistic knowledge to me.

@ReineMarieGamache that's where I saw it too.

@Puffinshop I noticed the name because of the number of vowels compared to consonants but are you saying that it has been transliterated wrongly? And that where the BBC has written o it should be an Icelandic letter? This is all so interesting...

@ReineMarieGamache Yes, they swapped ð for o. Likely a computer error rather than a human error.

You get used to deciphering Icelandic as imagined by computers that don't understand ð, þ, æ, ö, etc.

@Puffinshop thank you! What's the Icelandic letter called? I am envisaging imparting all this new knowledge to DH this evening and him looking impressed 😆

The letter that looks a little like a bent d that's in this name is called 'eth' and the one that looks slightly like a p is called 'thorn'. Thorn was used in Old English too.

In English it's called 'eth' 🙂
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

@Puffinshop @SoundTheSirens this is why I love Mumsnet... 😊