Spell Michael properly!

[dailyconniptions]

I'm so TIRED of seeing Michael Jackson written as Micheal. "Heal' is pronounced 'heel', so obviously it's wrong. If you're unsure, just look it up FFS. (Can't hold it in any more. I've come on here for a therapeutic moan!)

The Irish spelling has a fada though.

It doesn’t have anything to do with being from Limerick.
It’s just that nearly all Irish accents pronounce the letter r at all positions in a word. This means your phonetic transcription of the name doesn’t actually sound like the name when read in an Irish accent (though I’m sure it does in your accent).

It’s not a totally different name though?
Michael and Micheál have the same root.

It’s less obvious from the spelling but so do Séamus and James.
I know a few men who use Séamus day to day, but who are James on their birth certs.

The new film about our Gaeilgeoir Micheál MacSeacais 🤣

It’s pronounced Me-hall.

Cool thank you, I’ll tell him

The irony was that the person who kept spelling it as Micheal on the thread about the abuse was a big fan who was passionately defending him. I did think, at least spell his bloody name right if you love him so much.