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The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

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  • #842
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    maryk123 wrote: »
    Iarla

    Pronounced ear la

    As in Tiocfaidh Iarla?? 


  • #843
    The Narrator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭The Narrator


    I honestly think any names which are more than three syllables should probably be outlawed.

    "Hi, my name is Allouiscious."

    Maximilian
    Alexander
    etc. etc.

    Also, anything religious is probably a no no.

    "So, you're name is Abraham, I am guessing you would like like to discuss the biblical Abraham and his sons, considering you have the same name."

    "Ehh, I'm an atheist. I do like F. Murray Abraham though, so we could talk about him if you want."


  • #844
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Frawn-cis


  • #845
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    I posted elsewhere on boards about this. In the book Freakonomics there is a chapter about baby names. One African American woman was really pissed off at her family and friends. She named her child le-ah. People were calling the child leeeeaaaaahhhh. But she said the dash was to be pronounced. She wanted the child's name to be ledashah.


  • #846
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    I have 2 kids, both with Irish names, my third child will have an Irish name too. I can't understand anyone who has a problem with Irish people giving their children Irish names.


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  • #847
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    arse..biscuits wrote: »
    I have 2 kids, both with Irish names, my third child will have an Irish name too. I can't understand anyone who has a problem with Irish people giving their children Irish names.

    Some people have different opinions to you.
    I don't like the Irish sounding names.
    But it would be boring if we were all the same.


  • #848
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,086 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    is Aoibheann nor pronounced Even?


  • #849
    S.R.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 667 ✭✭✭S.R.


    44leto wrote: »
    All the stupid Gaelic names


    ANY of them

    Are u Irish?


  • #850
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    When the first name is almost the same as the surname.
    Zumo Bishop on Fair City, his name is Patrick Fitzpatrick.
    I met a lad before and his name was Dermot McDermot.
    What do parents be thinking sometimes?
    Any of those unpronounceable and unspellable Irish names are stupid too.
    Or normal names that are spelt differently to be cool. Shaymus


  • #851
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Teegan, It sounds like a Fiat estate car


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  • #852
    bedrock#1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭bedrock#1


    oldyouth wrote: »
    Teegan, It sounds like a Fiat estate car

    This is more commonly a surname, no?


  • #853
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Fiachra,Phelim,Fachtna,Tadgh,Jeremy and Aeneus


  • #854
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Some people have different opinions to you.
    I don't like the Irish sounding names.
    But it would be boring if we were all the same.

    I know people have different opinions and everyone is free to call their kids whatever they want and if you don't like the sound of Séan or Aoife that's fine, but what I can't understand is some of the comments on here which are so against Irish names. I can't imagine the same attitude in any other country.
    Can you imagine French people slagging off French names?


  • #855
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    Jacinta.
    Pius.
    Aneas.
    Maoliosa
    Zachariah.
    Cian.

    Loads more but that's enough for now.


  • #856
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    The friend of the wife (school teacher because it always is), called her daughter some ridiculous sounding Irish name only to discover she had been spelling it wrong after 10 months...


  • #857
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Some people have different opinions to you.
    I don't like the Irish sounding names.
    But it would be boring if we were all the same.

    I don't think the poster is referring to people just not liking the names, that's one thing, that's normal to like different names, I am less than mad about a few American ones myself. It's more to do with the pure vitriol some people seem to have to some of them, e.g. the poster who said they would backhand the parents with a child called Saoirse.


  • #858
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,190 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Brax.


  • #859
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Irish names, they sound naff


  • #860
    Melissa30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭Melissa30


    Whatever about the stupid names like Shakira and Chardonnay. I really hate when people spell normal names different like Jakki, Sharyn, Aimee etc. Even worse these people were christened Jackie, Sharon & Amy they just decided themselves to be an idiot and change them and then get mad when people spell their name wrong.


  • #861
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    pickarooney wrote: »
    is Aoibheann nor pronounced Even?

    Native speaker on Forvo to the rescue:
    http://www.forvo.com/word/aoibhinn/#ga

    The vowel triagraph aoi in Irish is always prononunced like a long i (í -- ee for english speakers)

    Vowel diagraph AO has two prononuciations, Connacht and Ulster people prononunce it as a "long i" (equivalent to aoi). Munster speakers prononunce it as a "long e" (é -- like "ay/ae" sound in english )

    Tbh english vowels are fúcked since the middle-ages. For example once you go to the Netherlands and your realise that their vowels have the same values as in Irish, it becomes alot easier to prononunce Dutch placenames.

    ee in Dutch for example is prononunced identically to é in Irish -- as oppose to English "ee" which shifted to a "long i" sound in the 14-15th centuries (eg. í or ii )


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  • #862
    Chattastrophe!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭Chattastrophe!


    pickarooney wrote: »
    is Aoibheann nor pronounced Even?

    Most people who use it as a name for their child pronounce it Ay-veen.

    Most people are completely wrong. It's not different dialects or anything, there is no way Aoibheann could be pronounced like Ay-veen.

    I cannot understand why parents wouldn't do a bit of research before deciding on a name for their child!


  • #863
    Stojkovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    Tadgh.


  • #864
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Irish names, they sound naff

    You're probably pronouncing them wrong then! ;)


  • #865
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Stojkovic wrote: »
    Tadgh.

    Bull


  • #866
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Jayden


  • #867
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    Enda


  • #868
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    I was talking to a fella on the phone one day and his name was Lillian.
    I desperately tried to hold in the laughter.
    I should have asked him was his wife's name Derek.


  • #869
    Hannibal Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,893 ✭✭✭Hannibal Smith


    Dalton


  • #870
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Stojkovic wrote: »
    Tadgh.

    no doubt you hates Badgers as well.


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  • #871
    Emilio Yellow Headboard
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Emilio Yellow Headboard


    Chattastrophe! wrote: »
    Most people who use it as a name for their child pronounce it Ay-veen.

    Most people are completely wrong. It's not different dialects or anything, there is no way Aoibheann could be pronounced like Ay-veen.

    I cannot understand why parents wouldn't do a bit of research before deciding on a name for their child!

    Yeah I kept calling my cousin ee-veen but they're insistent it's ay-veen


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