Need some nice Irish names..

[mica23]

Dont know sex of the baby yet but would like to give it an Irish name.DP is Irish but no help!!Thank you..

Yes I did the same, when I arrived fresh off the boat (well fresh off FR1124) I used to say 'amn't I'. I was laughed at but if you break it down to 'am I not?' and say it really fast, I'm still confused as to why that would be wrong.

Although, after much assimilation, I now get funny looks for saying 'aren't i?' here in dubh linn.

That is roundly MOCKED for being idiotic and totally wrong here. "aren't i?" WHAT the heck did you just say you big eejit ha ha!

I am reassimilating back into Irish society now. I never said Drawring though. Honest gov.

ps, I do that 'so' thing. And also 'now'. Just as I'm pottering about, everything I do is punctuated with 'now!'. My son only has ten words and he shuffles about saying 'now!' for no reason in particular.

I refuse to believe 'amn't I' is incorrect?!?!

What I found hardest to understand when I moved here first was how people knew I was Irish just from my voice/accent

I'm such a bogger that I think they're too busy laughing at my accent most of the time to register the 'unusual' words and/or expressions I use (or at least I hope so)

I'm in Scotland so people are usually quite nice about any strange things I may say. A former senior manager here loved when I told him I was 'grand' if he asked me how I was

Aoife
Rafferty
Seamus

I think Shakespeare said "amn't I?" but then some smartarse replied "he couldn't spell his own name"

Most British peops (sorry to generalise) can't tell bogger from 'dort'. I was slagged for my 'strong' Irish accent too! I get asked if I'm English here.

Graham Norton?, Shane Lynch? from Boyzone, ALL the same!!

Mind you in fairness (!) I couldn't tell derbyshire from lancashire or anything like that..

My English grandmother spent her last years here in Ireland & used to get very when people asked her if she was "in good form". She thought it was something to do with horseracing and generally inappropriate .

Liffey - what really gets me is people who can't tell if I'm from Northern Ireland or not?!?! Hello, the accents couldn't be more different! I wouldn't be brilliant at every accent but would definitely know Liverpool v London for example.

VintageGardenia - LMAO at that one

Yes wtf is it with that? To me a Northern Ireland accent is as different from a Dublin accent, for example, as an English accent is from a Scottish one. Another thing is that we say "haitch" instead of "aitch" ( The letter, not the Mumsnetter!)

Any Saint really!

I have an Orla, which I love

Hello to fellow Keeva mums. As you can see we anglicized it so people knew how to pronounce it. Now regret it though.

Yes, they are MORE different than American English and Dublin English. I would understand confusion there more readily!