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The worst kid's name you've ever heard?
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That's really unfair, many Irish names are lovely, however, my personal gripe is with those impenetrable ones that are impossible to spell & equally impossible to pronounce!
Met a Mum in the park recently and her daughters name was 'Ava', how lovely I thought, "a bit like the Hollywood actress Ava Gardner I said", a'hemm she said, actually I'm her granny and my daughter named her the Irish way, Its spelt Aoidbhe, although some people leave out the d I think? or maybe its the b? and there's a fadda over the e although most people don't use it, I think she herself might spell it Ava when she grows up she said, as she smiled
) I nodded and we carried on chatting . . . . . .
That's the kind of Irish name that wrecks my head, from filling in forms to passports, to people looking at the name and thinking, what the' is that?
Technically speaking if they called the child Aoibhe and are using the pronunciation "Ava" then they are mispronouncing it it even in Irish. Just way english speakers mispronounce the name Niall by rhyming it with a river in Egypt, and don't start me with Eithne (hint: "Enya")
To get a pronunciation like "Ava" you'd have to use the name Éabha0 -
There's a Braxton out there in Dublin 3 somewhere.
Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!' 0 -
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Gloomtastic! wrote: »There's a Braxton out there in Dublin 3 somewhere.
Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'
Ok that's it. Stop the planet, I want to get off.0 -
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Gloomtastic! wrote: »
Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'
You do realise that all names were made up by somebody!
Some were made up further back than others.
Not mad about Bellamia but at least it's not Caolfhionn is it?0 -
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Gloomtastic! wrote: »There's a Braxton out there in Dublin 3 somewhere.
Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'
Someone I used to work with named their kid miabella
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