Name horrible in my accent

[Gemmahearts94]

Have you ever loved a name but couldn't use it because it's awful in your accent? Even if you said it properly you know everyone else you know wouldn't 😂

for me I live in a part of the country where T's are pronounced weirdly. E.g

water is (war-uh)
hunter is (hunt-uh)
bath path laugh (baff, paff, laff)

I know it's awful, but everyone I know speaks like this, I was actually talking to my friend about it earlier, she moved here when she was 8 from London and she now speaks this way too

When I was pregnant with my first daughter I loved the name Hattie, but when I said it to my partner he said it's a cute name but did you hear what you actually just said?

Hattie (Ha-ee)

Not my accent but in laws are from West Yorkshire which rules anything out ending in "o" because of how much they hang onto their O's 🤦‍♀️

We loved Leo but would end up being Leoooooooooooooooo

Are you in the North East, OP? I feel the same about "Hattie" -- love the look of it but my family would all say Ha-ee!

I love the name Eden but after hearing my Jamaican husband say Eee-den when we were discussing baby names it didn’t get shortlisted.

east yes north no. But without to being to outing there's a lot of Scot's here so it's filtered into the accent over the years, I'll be honest the accent on some is fine on offers is god awful. E.g grown men sounding like 14 year old boys

Sometimes I hear myself and I'm like wow. I said that horrifically 😂

I’m Irish and you should hear the way I pronounce Lady GaGa. I cringe every time I say it. Same goes for the boy’s name Grant.

There was a TV I used to watch set in California.
There was a character I thought was called Hattie.
Turned out the character was called Haddie.
Accents are funny sometimes.

@Gemmahearts94 are you Kettering or Corby by any chance?
The whole midlands/scots combo 😂
(I'm a "Kettrin" person by marriage)

My accent is pretty standard RP, but I sometimes get confused with names pronounced in other accents.

For example, it took me a long time to work out that Americans calling someone 'Terror', were in fact trying to say 'Tara'.

In my local accent, Bristolian, any name ending with an "a" or an "er" tends to sound like "ur" eg Lorna sounds like Lornur. Also names with an "th" in them is pronounced as an "f"

I had to rule out all kinds of names because of DH's accent. And my mother regretfully eliminated her own first choice of name for me when she heard it being screamed from a top floor window of a tenement flat overlooking the Clyde..

Norfolk? They don't sound their t's.

Got me 😂😂

told you it was a give away

@Gemmahearts94 ha ha.
(I could only understand about 30% of what my late father in law said in his ridiculously strong scots accent)

I don't pronounce 'h's

I had to veto,Henry (enry) harry(arry) Harriet (arriet) and 'hester' (ester)

All my (now adult) children have no 'h' names

Shame as there is a lot of gorgeous h names out there but I couldn't use them

Im north (pr. norf) London. Cant pronounce th-s and ph-s. My favourite name is Sophie. I hate my first name and desperately wanted to change it but I couldnt pronouce it properly and couldnt think of another name I liked.

I named my daughter something else.

I also pronounce my best friend Heather's name as Hevver.

My sister and her (English) husband had huge trouble over this. So many lovely Irish names ruled out because he couldnt say them properly - and if he could, his family definitely would get them wrong😁

It’s definitely a consideration. In-laws suggested Theo and we rejected it. People round our way struggle with Th and F instead. So poor little Theo would end being Feo. Im not even from here so find it doubly annoying

I really love the name Rosie but my dh is from the West Midlands and his o's are pronounced ow as in ouch so it was R-ow-sie not R-oh-sie

Why?

Because of my accent,I don't pronounce them

She answered - the H problem is one where I grew up too as my maiden name starts with a H.

Enry sounds ‘orrible!

A bit off topic, but since my husband is from overseas, i can’t pronounce my own surname properly!

I didn’t consider this name, but we Scots find Charles a bit awkward : “Charruls” !

We’re also notorious for our glottal stops, so e.g. Peter sounds awful: “Pe-urr”

this one is not one my region can't say, just this one particular man 😂

a few weeks ago I was walking through town and a man was calling his daughter over like

A-MAN-EE

i assumed her name was manny or something, anyway the mum comes over and she's like "AR-MAR-NEE" listen to daddy 😅

surely you'd veto a name if your partner butchered it like that 😂😂

her name was Armani or however you spell it