How would you pronounce the name....

[MamaMimi]

...Catriona.

Dp and I have differing opinions on this and I just wonder what the consensus would be amongst everyone out there. Maybe it depends on where, in the UK, you come from(?)

lemon, we are not divided. Some of us are right and some are wrong.

scottish name Cat-tree-o-na o is emphasised
catrina - ca-tree-na.no o so dont say it
phoneticallly both names

My friend's sister (in Perthshire) is a Cat-ree-nah. Until I met them I would have always said Cat-ree-oh-nah (I'm english).

scottishm, you're wrong

But it IS also an Irish name, so has at least one Irish way of pronouncing, so you can't just say there is one correct way, and that is a scottish way.

I am Scottish and have lived in various bits, known several Catrionas and they have all been
Cat-ree-naa

But I am tickled by
Cat Tree Owner

really?have always heard it pronounced like this by catriona's.ach well then

I was going back a long time for that pronunciation, a girl at my primary school, who I remember to this day, was adamant that her name was Cah-tree-oh-na.

so edinburgh has obviously been anglicised for a very long time!

Same as Katrina (I'm Scots too)

oh yes, a very very long time. Like all teh pretty places in scotland.

katrina. i am from london.

can we do caitlin now?

Kate-Lynn - easy!!

i am smiling as the catriona i know is emphatic it is Cat-tree-o-na.in fact corrects "mispronunciations"

[Takes very deep breath] Caitlin pron Katleen soft t......
[runs for cover]

macmam's pron

I farking 'ate Kate-Lynn, as I have said on approx 99 threads on MN, just in case you weren't quite clear...

cait-linnnn long soft on latter part

It should be Cat-leen but is now so widely anglicised to Kate-Lyn on Britain that the fight is over.

If you want Kate Lynn just go for Kate Lynn...

DN is Caitriona - and we all say katrina. We're north and south and Irish.

i will hold the candle for katleen. my irish friend has an accent such that he can't actually pronounce a 'th'.

Katelynn. shudder

I used to teach a Sioban , pronounced So-bee-an. I kid you not...

I love Caitlin pronounced Catleen (soft t).

But it would never, ever be said like that round here.

Cat-tree-nah for sure.

I knew a Catriona and she pronounced her name

Cat ree nah

Northants/Oxfordshire area