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(?)

This thread is cracking me up (again) . I would honestly never have expected such a variety of pronunciations for this name.

I've got to agree with MrsMattie as I feckin' hate the trend for "Kate-Lynn". So Irish-American (see here for how popular in in the States since the 80s).

Also TheFallenMadonna at that poor Sioban

In Irish io is pronounced "ee"
So Cat-ree-na
It's my lovely dsis's name.

I also love Cliona but if I had used it for a dd ( I have all boys) MIL would have pronounced it Clee-OH-na and that would have driven me mad!

In the People's Republic of Cork (Up the Rebels) it is Catreena, except my dental hygenist whose father is from Donegal is more Katrayna.

HI Chipmonkey!

Stleger as a fellow rebel I had a different pronunciation

Chipmonkey I also love Cliona (loved the story of Cliona and the wave as a kid) but Clee-OH-na is just plain wrong...

but more tree than tray? And a wee hiccupy uh after it....sitting saying it here. I will ask my dd when she arrives, she's my all Ireland pronunciation expert. (She has to use the Irish version of her middle name at Irish College, in case they call her Gobnait!)

The flipside of this is that we were really thinking of using Catherine as a name for DD2, because all the Catherines we know are lovely.

But here in the People's Republic she would have been called either Cat-rin or Cat-run which however soft the 'T' didn't quite hit the spot for us.

DD2 is now Eibhlín, which in England (though not here) opens up the not dissimilar 'Evlin /Everlin debate that has run twice in this parish in the last few weeks.

Stleger definitely more tree than tray! at Gobnait - that's the first time I've ever seen that name on t'interweb (and I knew a Gobnait at Irish College - I have many happy memories of messing around at Irish College in West Cork )

Sibh I'm a Catherine from the People's Republic and you learn to ignore all the Cat-run/rin types (a big pet hate of mine ). I definitely am a "Cath-er-ine" as Cat-run/rin makes me shudder (my best friend's mum growing up called me Cat-urn, so her whole family called me Cat-urn, very annoying!) Love Eiblin (I can't do the fadas ) - I've a sister Evelyn who always loved her Irish name

Meant Eibhlin

(Shall we start a 'What about Gobnait?' thread for the craic?

Caitni - I shall add you to my list of lovely Catherines.

alt gr plus i = í
Hey presto ...

OK I am PSML at the "What about Gobnait" thread . Just tried to explain it to my (american) husband...he's not getting it .

Sibh I'm on a mac...seems the joys of fadas shall remain a mystery to me for a while yet!

Sibh I'm on a mac...seems the joys of fadas shall remain a mystery to me for a while yet!

Cat-ri-oh-na

In Sheffield

StLeger - the thread could offer up Gobnait or Riagnoch and see which one was a hit ...

Girl in class I workin is Caitlin. Pronounced Kate-Lin, emphasis on Kate.

Or twins! Caitlin is a pretty name.

Hi stleger, have you been away from t'internet?
Gobnait always reminds me of

What happened there? I didn't press "Post"!

As I was saying Gobnait reminds me of Frank Kelly's Twelve Days of Christmas.
"Yours affectionately, Gobnait O'Lunasa"

cah - tree - un - ah

have known many people with the name growing up over here and it's always pronounced that way [looks sternly at chipmonkey and stleger]

stleger... were you northside perchance? they can't speak properly up there so that might explain it

Well, it's not pronounced that way in Kildare!

tis all that horse shite addling yer brains