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Changing my name to the Irish Version

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  • #32
    Hedgemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    Julius Seizure wrote: »
    I've got an Irish name and if you think you get black stares, I'd get 3 times more! I'm always repeating my name, at least 3 times to be understood. Can't really think of any name where the Irish is clearer than the English?

    Mine is one! You see, my name simply 'cries out' for an 'O' before it, but it hasn't... and to put it simply my question was, should I put the bloody 'O' there and be done with it, but then I'd have to change the last letter to make it really Irish.

    Jeez, this is confusing.
    Now I've given myself a headache. :D


  • #33
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Hedgemeister wrote: »
    Mine is one! You see, my name simply 'cries out' for an 'O' before it, but it hasn't... and to put it simply my question was, should I put the bloody 'O' there and be done with it, but then I'd have to change the last letter to make it really Irish.

    Jeez, this is confusing.
    Now I've given myself a headache. :D

    The last person who should be getting confused about your name is you. Just leave it the way it is and leave the confusion to others


  • #34
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Why not adopt "O" as a middle initial?


  • #35
    JumpShivers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 580 ✭✭✭JumpShivers


    :(

    Change your name by all means, but atleast spell it correctly. It annoys me to see fadas on letters where it shouldn't be.

    Or the other annoyance, when people change their name into Irish and haven't an iota how to pronounce it.

    :mad:


  • #36
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Op do whatever ye like ;)

    Your name!


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  • #37
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    JumpShivers wrote: »
    It annoys me to see fádas on letters where it shouldn't be.

    Eh...


  • #38
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Change your name to 'I'm not telling you you nosy p**ck'


  • #39
    Maphisto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Maphisto


    Used to have a Mrs P Enis come into the office (West London around 83/84). She could never understand the sniggers.


  • #40
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    Is your name Danny Boy?


  • #41
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    **** that, if you're going to change it, change it to something like Jaqen H'ghar or Gregor Clegane. No one's going to look blankly at you with a name like that.


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  • #42
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Let me guess...you have 10 points on your licence?


  • #43
    Hedgemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Why not adopt "O" as a middle initial?

    Good idea!


  • #44
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Don't do it, it's ridiculously pretentious to use an Irish name.

    Irish names are lovely. Who wouldn't fancy a nice Roisín, Niamh Orla, Aoife etc.
    I've an Irish for- and surname and am happy out. It's an anglicised version of Gaelic names but still.


  • #45
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Why not adopt "O" as a middle initial?

    O. O'Cromwell.


  • #46
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Will you just tell us the name and get it over and done with?


  • #47
    Hedgemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    Suas11 wrote: »
    Will you just tell us the name and get it over and done with?


    Ahh shure that would spoil it. :rolleyes:


  • #48
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Hedgemeister wrote: »
    Ahh shure that would spoil it. :rolleyes:

    Please Don't make us say Stig Bubblecard......


  • #49
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    Wait your names not Hedgemeister!
    I thought the rule was that we had to use our real names on boards.


  • #50
    Hedgemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    From today on it's O' Hedgemeister. (Bill O' Hedgemeister to be exact)

    It must be lucky to change names as I've already got an email from the only surviving member of a Nigerian Royal Family promising to cut me in on the ground floor of a little money making racket...oops, scheme...all legal and above board of course.
    Seems his late Dad, The elder Regent (may Allah Bless his kind decent soul and pave his way to Heaven with rose petals and naked virgins) passed away in 2013 leaving millions to his only son and heir. But, darn it, the dosh is in gold bullion (tons of the stuff) and buried at a location known only to aforementioned son and heir (and now, thanks to my newest and bestest friend Prince ***************** of the Family of ******** from the Tribe of ******* in NE Nigeria, yours truly now knows its location too!)
    (Jeez, but tis great to have friends like this!)

    All ole O' Hedgemeister has to to do is provide the boy with a few basic details about my financial standing, etc etc and apparently, well, Bob's my uncle!


  • #51
    FinnLizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭FinnLizzy


    I do it so my friends know who I am, but potential employers can't find me as easily.

    Other ways include; spoonerisms, writing your name backwards, mixing up the letters, etc.


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  • #52
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    This thread is completely pointless unless you tell us your name.

    My cousin changed his name to irish and completely misspelt his surname. I've told him several times how to spell it correctly but he likes the phonetic version. Peasant.


  • #53
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Duracell Bunny wrote: »
    Myles Long

    Myles High.


  • #54
    DubVelo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭DubVelo


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Don't do it, it's ridiculously pretentious to use an Irish name.

    Jaysus...

    Not more of this 'ashamed to be Irish' crap.


  • #55
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    O'No
    As in Y'Oko O'No


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 283 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    is it Peter File??


  • #57
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Don't do it, it's ridiculously pretentious to use an Irish name.

    Absolutely. And it's especially so when we try to convince foreigners that really we have this perfectly viable living official language that isn't English.

    It could bump up your chances of presenting the Eurovision Song Contest should we ever get to host it again. Look at some of the names we forced broadcasters around Europe to struggle with in the past.

    Bernadette Ni Gallchoir
    Cynthia Ni Mhurchu
    Doirean Ni Bhriain

    If only they had used the Anglicised versions of their names. They'd have sounded like three Coronation St characters.

    Bernie Gallager, Sindy Murphy and Doreen O'Brien.

    (Say them out loud in a Manc accent!)


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