Pronouncing some of those names...

[SoupDragon]

OK, have been giggling at the assorted humorous name threads but some of them I can't imagine how they're pronounced so help me out here...

Caoimhe
Trygve
Muireann
Seren (Not really hard to pronounce but is as in Serenity?)
Jago
Collum (Not Column, surely or was it a typo for Callum?)

Eithne

Trygve is pronounced 'trig-vee' - it's Scandinavian - I studied with someone called that. Nice, eh? He was v blond and good-looking.

Ghislaine

These have all been mentioned by you lot so someone must know how they're pronounced

Caoimhe(keeva)

i once worked with a Mhaire (pron: Varee)

How is that keeva???

it's irish... like naimh (neeve)

Names confuse me

Flamesparrow, Not sure, I get lots of Irish customers at work, and when I,m taking down the spelling, I always put my phoenetic version alongside, for when I have to call them back!
Can you guess Sile?

I think Caoimhe is more Kweeva at least thats how we say it in the east of Ireland - mh is a v sound just like in Niamh (Neev)

Muireann is Mwur-ann

Sile = Sheila???

Oooh, or something like Sophie probably

Eithne is pronounced Enya I think.

NOt sure I can even manage the phoenetic "Mwur-ann"

(oh, and thanks )

lol Sd Dp couldnt either kept saying murr-ann. was really funny watching him try tho.

I guess it's kind of like Moi? Blimey, I look like a goldfish as I keep trying that one!

We've chosen Roisin for our 'girl' name for DB. DD has a Scots Gaelic name that many in other parts of the UK cannot pronounce - never seems to trip up the Irish, however .

yeah it is. thats the sound exactly but with an errr on the end rather than a aw sound.

When I first got here I worked w/an 'Aoife'. Had to ask her how to say it.

Expat, my DD has a Scots Gaelic name too wonder if it is the same

She's Eilidh, seb.

Snap!!

The Eithne I know is just pronounced Eth n (the 'n' making the sound of letter N)

expat - we had 2 Aiofe's in my November 2003 Antenatal club on Babyworld !

How do you pronounce Aoife?