ewinslet wrote: » Sorcha, Fiachra, Fionn, Aoife, Saoirse. Basically all Irish names. Also Jenny. Jennifer is fine, but Jenny just wrecks my head.
Missyelliot2 wrote: » But here in Cork, the surname Coughlan is pronounced Caugh-lan, whereas in other parts of Ireland it's pronounced Coq-lan. Don't know which is right/wrong or is it ignorance of the english language?
eyescreamcone wrote: » ...specialist in flights to the sun?
Mars Bar wrote: » I don't really mind Irish names all that much. We have a girl on our soccer team called Roise and I really like that name. That would top the list of girls names I would give my child.
Rips wrote: » I don't know which is worse, the people who can't stand Irish names in an Irish country, or the people who can't stand anglicised Irish names, in a country where most everything is anglicised, never mind the differences in dialects. If people started calling their sons Nyle ... they would be ridiculed for trying to be unique and different! You can't win!
looking_around wrote: » Saoirse & aoife are lovely names. I cant say I've heard of Sorcha or Fiachra (I just pronounced that very close to ..something else entirely..) __ Worst names, cailin (the irish for girl..however its spelt)..someone named their kid that. Usanavy Skye ___and because I had a dog called Vanessa, I can't take anyone with that name seriously.
allandanyways wrote: » My housemate works in a creche in Dublin's inner city and no word of a lie, she has little one called Rihanna in her group whose mother is no older than about 16 and arrives every evening, still in her pajamas, cigarette hanging out of the mouth (accompanied by a 4 pack of Blue WKD on Fridays) looking to pick up her "Princess Ri-Ri".
Zubeneschamali wrote: » As in Niamh, Ciara, Liam, Ian, Rian, Brian and every Irish word with that 'ia' in it. OK, the Brians have been even more thoroughly mangled, and only actual Irish speakers use Bree-an. Lots of the people who are referred to as Nye-al are actually called Knee-al, and are just tired correcting people.
nc19 wrote: » Im tired correcting people when they call me Neil when i was in primary all the names were called out in irish and spelt in irish and my name in irish is spelt Neil and pronounced as such but i was christened Niall pronouced Nile thanks very much
dubhthach wrote: » The name in Irish is spelt as Niall, ffs it's one of the oldest commonly used Irish languages names to this day. It been found for example in Ogham ("MAQI NILI") Do you think that "Niall Noígiallach" (d. circa 450AD), "Niall Frossach" (d. 778AD), "Niall Caille" (d. 846AD) and "Niall Glúndubh" (d. 919AD) went around rhyming their name with a river in Africa? It's phonologically impossible to rhyme the name with "Nile" in the Irish language. The genitive case for Niall is Néill eg. "mac néill" (son of Niall) or "Ó Néill" (grandson of Niall). Néill by the way rhymes with english word "nail" (or "Nayle"). According to the 1901 census there are were only 5 people bearing the name "Niall" in Ireland, all of them under age of 12. In comparison there was Neal: 954 Neil: 1456 Neill: 141 Total: 2,551 It's fairly obvious that the actual Irish language spelling was revived at the time as part of the Gaelic renewal, sort of as a trendy spelling -- kinda like fad for names like Fiachra today (Fiachrae was a half-brother of Niall Noígiallach, who also had a son called Fiachrae). Only problem is people decided to use a makey uppy pronunciation instead of the actual proper pronunciation.
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Wurly wrote: » Bowie Starr..... Seriously!!!:mad:
MrsD007 wrote: » Nigella Lawson had a sister called Thomasina. Nigella is a pretty unusual name too in fairness..
ken wrote: » My neighbour had a baby recently. Called her Macie. Her niece put it up on facebook as Massy. Near pee'd myself laughing.
