Bring back Keith!

[Ghuunvg]

Shouldn't it be due a comeback? I think it sounds kind of earthy and folky

@Needmorelego

There is an alternative pronunciation of, 'Phoebe'. In the original Greek, the 'b' is pronounced as a soft 'v'. In no
Instances is the 'ph' sounded as anything other than an 'f'.

In the spirit of this rather odd thread, Keith should indeed have a comeback, but spelt, 'Coeph'.

@JoanThursday glad to have made your day 😂😂

Oh that's very good, @Hobbi !

Please don't!

Anyfing wiv a 'th' sound is going to be condemned to default 'f' pretty soon. Lazy pronunciation is catching, evidently.

And it's a very dull name, 60 years out of date and not due a comeback.

I do find watching Call the Midwife hard..... Camera pans to an adorable cute lickle baby.
Then we find out the baby is called Gary or Brenda.
Poor 1950s/60s babies 😂

Agreed. . I know several and they pronounce their name feebie. PH is always pronounced like f , photo, phone, etc.
To pronounce it with a th sound the name would have to be Thebe.
I am not keen on Keith and not because it's a name from the 60s I just don't like the sound of it.

Yes, almost as hard as hearing the word, 'ickle'.

I met a 3 year old Keith at a school open night. He was very cute and no doubt his peers will have no worries.

I always think of Keith in the same bracket as Kevin, Gary, Barry, Nigel and that sort of thing. Pretty dire really.

It also lost the tiny amount of credibility it did have with the Spitting Image song "stick a deckchair up your nose and pretend your name is Keith".

Good grief, no!

😂😂

@Hobbi "lickle" not "ickle" 😂😂
(I love that word..... sorry)
@ginasevern I always think of the Spitting Image song too. Possibly because my poor childhood friend Keith (aka Keef) had to put up with "PRETEND YOUR NAME IS KEITH (his) SURNAME " on a loop for about 2 years.

'Lickle' gives me the, erm, ick.

Sorry to do that to you @Hobbi 🙂

Don't forget Kenneth (Kennif).

I'm 48 and when I was 10/11 and moved schools there were two Keiths in my class, and I thought it was old fashioned then for someone our age (in about 1986).

So yeah, why not? Babies being called Keith, Malcolm and Barry will crack me up. Girls being called Sheila, Brenda and Barbara.

I know a teenage Keith but it is a name I associate with a 60+ man

Keith has always been relatively common in parts of Scotland and I know two teenagers and a 9 year old Keith.

I'm not that keen, but I do quite like Kenneth / Kenny.

Or Keifer.

I know a Kylie spelt 'Khaili'. If you know her too for fux sake don't out me, I doubt she'd be happy with this post, but it does amuse me, especially as she pre-dated the famous Kylie so until Kylie was a thing she was very younique.

Those of you that say Keef, so you also say Feo for Theo and Fe for The?

I agree with you @Ghuunvg . My late dad was a Keith and our son has it as a middle name . I suppose some names you like because of association and my dad was a truly wonderful person .

I think popular names come around every 100 years or so. So it’s not time for the 1940s to 1960s names to come back yet.

It’s fucking awful OP 😁

Um, no it isn’t.

Are you thinking of Thisbe?!