Oooh a classic in our local paper ...

[Disenchanted3]

Reporting on some 20+ year old lad with the name ...

Diarmuid White

Glass of cheap Cider anyone??

No No No No!! Why?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

isn't Diarmuid a good old Irish name? There's a gardener on the Telly with the same name pronounced Durmut.

Diarmuid is an old and very popular Irish name.

How is it pronounced?

It's pronounced Dermot - I have no idea why someone would think it was a weird name unless they had never met any Irish people or heard of the garden designer Diarmuid Gavin - sure there must be other famous Diarmuids too.

Kinda like Dermott but with an Irish accent. Thrifty prob has it best Durmut

good solid Irish lads name that is.

It's not the Christian name I have trouble with it's the fact that people choose to put a Christian name with a surname that works the same as this one does!

I love that name! Just not that common over here

It is a nice name, but surely you think about how a name works visually as well as how it sounds? I think it is funny too anyway.

Well if the person in question is in his 20s then his parents were very likely not aware of the potential for comic confusion with cheap cider.

Em, I think you're overreacting a tad. You would pronounce it sort of Dermid White, sounds nothing like Diamond White.

very true LGP - Diamond White launched in 1986 so may not have been a "household" name when the bloke was named.

Well I found it funny Dis . I spent many an evening under the influence of Diamond White and his sister Diamond Blush

Jesus, calm down, I know how its pronounced and I know its an irish name.

But the way it looks with the surname White ... It just made me chuckle.

I'm not laughting at the parents either or asking 'why' it jusdt looks unfortunate when reading rather than saying.

Oh, I see. I didn't get why it was funny at all at first. No funnier than someone being called Johnnie Walker, imho.

Fuck

lol.

AH well...

Yea my Grandads called John Smith

Thanks Suwoo,

I think its funny!! lmao! Some of you lot need to lighten up! I find it odd how some people let posts get to them so much they let off such steam! Oh dear!

took me till Nellys post before I could work out why the op thought it was odd

lol! Diarmuid is the original Gaelic version of Dermott. Deermut is probably the best way I can explain pronunciation.

Unfortunate name, though. DH used to have a colleague with a daughter called Tia-Maria. I kid you not.

lol!

I don't think it's funny. I called my DD Stella and our surname is Artwaar - the teasing she gets is terrible.