Modern Irish childrens names

There's always Aifric for a girl too!

pmasterson95 wrote: »

****ing auto correct hahahaha.

Sure.....

Most Irish names sound awful and don't roll off the tongue nicely.
They also conjure up images associated with them.

Exhibit A: "Sinead"; I think of a girl with a snotty nose and a plain face.
Exhibit B: "Ciara"; I think of a spiteful teenager with a tendency to roll her eyes at any given opportunity.
Exhibit C: "Caoimhe"; A D4 blonde with black roots and a penchant for Uggs.
Exhibit "Roisin"; A rosy-cheeked short girl with a bad temper.

eet fuk wrote: »

That's a pity, but ya can't help if you don't like something.

Out interest, what names do you like?

Britknee
Laquisha
D'angelo
Lill-Eee RoseMay
Jocasta
KrisstabellJ
And of course, Assumpta*

Seriously, I like a lot of names, just not a lot of Irish ones.

*Sarcasm alert

pmasterson95 wrote: »

Asia is actually a country. If you equate Asia to being a pornstar then you yourself are watching to much porn and must have failed Geography, and possibly described yourself.

I can't think of anything witty enough to reply to this post. Anyone want to help a brother out?

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I think they're terrible. Any irish name is terrible, stupid spelling an unpronounceable.

Gywn is spelt stupidly aswell.:pac:

I'm not fluent in Irish in any means but I've never struggled with the spelling or pronunciation of Irish names.

It's like telling someone named Juan that their name is spelt wrong or stupid just because it's not pronounced like it looks. There is no correct sound for any letter.

Irish spellings are actually more consistent than English overall (but so is every other Euro language!)

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

But yes I find the "more Irish" names a pain to pronounce - Caoimhe is a perfect example.. HTF is that "K(w)eeva"

Why would you spell it with a K? A hard 'C' exists in both English & Irish for starters.
The (mh) is more obvious and familiar to most people who learned Irish in school. It's the Caoi that throws them off.

Unlike English, group vowels in Irish always represent ONE syllable. People often try to pronounce each one separately.

BROAD vowels

a-o-u

These vowels when following a consonant always make a 'W' sound in between them. Think of how the Japanese add a 'uh' sound at the end of many words -- the Irish originally couldn't say these vowel sounds any other way so a '-w' as subconciously inserted in between. This doesn't typically happen with 'o' as much -- I guess they struggled less with that sound.

Example;

Bí sounds like bee (to be)
Buí sounds like bwee (yellow)

Combination vowels like 'ae', 'ea' and 'ao' are diphthongs. In any language these are confusing. Dialects add extra confusion.

In Irish, the 'ao' often sounds like an 'ee' sound. Maybe they once had more distinctive sounds but pronunciations tend to shift or sometimes simplfy over time (we see this in English too).

So;

Cao would sound like kwee using Irish language phonetics. I'm no expert but the 'i' is added to either so inflection (?) or because the second syllable ends with a Slender vowel (an 'e' or 'i'). It's a grammar thing anyways most likely.

Second syllables will usually just have a 'uh' or 'eh' sound depending on the vowels (broad/slender) in the first syllable.

lee mack irish names

fussyonion wrote: »

Most Irish names sound awful and don't roll off the tongue nicely.
They also conjure up images associated with them.

Exhibit A: "Sinead"; I think of a girl with a snotty nose and a plain face.
Exhibit B: "Ciara"; I think of a spiteful teenager with a tendency to roll her eyes at any given opportunity.
Exhibit C: "Caoimhe"; A D4 blonde with black roots and a penchant for Uggs.
Exhibit "Roisin"; A rosy-cheeked short girl with a bad temper.

Sinead makes me think of some kind of thrid world reliefe agency with a "cool" Irish name.
Ciara sounds like a heroine in a fantasy novel.
Caoimhe - a fart only a woman can make
Roisin - a car polish.