The "how do you pronounce these names?" thread

[eclectic_wench]

@bucketybuck

I would say they are still common enough over here, using the metric that I have a number of friends of each name.

Me too, but then I was born in the 70s I remember going to Irish college and realising that almost literally half the girls there were called Aine, Mairead or Deirdre. I don’t get the sense they’re as common for babies born now.

[MandaJo]

@Antigen

I know two Cassandras - it’s not that unusual a name.

Yeah, but I would never give it to a child because of the baggage it carries.

[foolsguinea]

@MandaJo

My husband and I both really like Greek girls’ names, but they all have such problematic associations. Medea? Ismene? Cassandra? Cressida? All lovely. Can’t be used.

I think Cassandra has lost a lot of its negative connotation. Yay for ignorance of the classics?

And there are still names like Penelope, Thalia, Daphne, Calliope, Cleone, Myrine, & so forth.

[Becky2844]

@RickJay

The Small One recently received an invitation to a birthday partys for twins named - well, hell, I can’t even figure out how to properly show you:

Aine, except there’s a rightward-leaning accent over the A

Mairéad

Look, I know Celtic names are all cool and stuff, but I don’t speak Celtic and neither do 99.8% of all Canadians, so how do these parents expect anyone, ever, to get these right? Why would you, in an English-speaking country, give your children names that are practically DESIGNED to be totally unphonetic to an Anglophone?

Anyway, I have to RSVP to the party and take my kid there so I’d appreciate knowing how to say these names when we sing “Happy Birthday.”

I read them as “Ann” & “Mary”

[mac_bolan00]

are those names or magical incantations? ooops… wrong thread.