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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[-] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago

Welcome to the world of Irish names!

We got:

  • Dearbhla (Derv-la, f)
  • caoilfhionn (kee-lin, f)
  • Meadhbh (Maeve, f)
  • Saoirse (seer-shuh, f)
  • Seoirse (shor-shuh, m)
  • Caoimhín (kee-veen, m)
  • Sadhbh (sive, f)

And many more!

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Hope do you pronounce Siobhan?

[-] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Shuh-vawn

[-] IronicDeadPan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

My American accent pronounces it "Shove-on".

[-] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

There’s meant to be a fada over the a (á), so it’s definitely meant to be a longer vowel sound.

Take the name Sean for example. Spelled like that it’s actually pronounced shan, and means old. The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán

And, fun fact, is the Irish version of the Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן) from which we get John and Jean and Jehan and Johan and Shane and Juan and many other variants!

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Everybody's named John. All the way back. There is only one name, just lots of different spellings and pronunciations.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

We should re-do Romanization. Start over, sound it out, have a big Anglosphere conference to decide on what letters make what noise and stick to it.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Many of the slavic romanizations have largely centralised on strict roman phonetics. There are still exceptions, but many of them can be sounded out with a bit of learning.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah. English doesn't use the "bh" and "dh" digraphs the same way we use "th", but Irish does. One you learn that, that's like 80-90% of the confusion.

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

My Irish cousin-in-law recently had a daughter and named her Blathnaid. I was very surprised to learn it is pronounced Bla-nid

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