Americanized Anglasized Irish Names

Clearly it's "Shocknessy"

I generally like Irish names. I lived in Canada for a while. I have an Irish first name. Whenever I went to Starbucks I'd just tell them my name was John for when they were writing it on the cup. Less hassle

I remember an American singer called Ciara but she seemed to pronounce it as Sierra. I've seen Ciaran spelled as Kieron as well.

It just makes it esier for people not raised in Ireland to pronounce which can save the person hassle, though I admit the phonetic spellings lack all of the beauty and elegance of the lovely but weird Irish spellings.

Irish names are beautiful, well some are, while some sound more like the name of a biblical demon or just a bit of drunken slurring at 3 am, but in any case they often fly in the face of what the typical phonetics are for the letters in the names. This bit of oddity is part of the beauty imo, but you can't fault Americans for being unable to pronounce them properly, and for some with those names to get fed up and spell them more phonetically to make life easier, especially since they are not common outside of this country. For example, Niamh, lovely name, but what other word in English has an m and h at the end like that, and how would anyone guess that combo makes a 'v' sound if they were not raised in Ireland?

I understand that Americans ruin everything and do everything wrong (well except for their films, music, TV, fashion, product designs, but that's hardly anything), but still, why blame English speakers for not being able to pronounce Gaelic words? They're not the same language!

My sister had to spell her name Shinead or even Shinade instead of Sinead when we lived in the States or she would be called Sin-ee-ahd or something similar. Americans come from all different backgrounds, places in Europe, etc. Neither an Italian in Italy or an Italian-American would have much luck pronouncing Irish names. Of course part of it is that some Americans will never leave the US and have no interest in other countries cultures. Though in fairness the Gaelic names are really nothing more than a trend here, with little substance, and the ones naming their kids Siabhra and Cian are just as likely to be spending their evenings keeping up with the Kardashians as any American.

My friend changed the spelling of her name from 'Sadhbh' to Sive when she moved to America. (In fairness, it's a difficult one, unless your Irish) and now they call her 'Sive'., as in the thing you shake flour though!

Ara isnt it well yeer names arent onion or cleaner. They never get them right.

Skerries wrote: »

So we have names like Moran being pronounced more-an or Doherty being pronounced Dokerty or Gallagher as Gallager

Wait, how else would you pronounce Moran?