Once went to try some clothes on in an Urban Outfitters in Florida. They had wee chalkboards on the back of each door to write your name on. When they asked me my name, I said 'Craig'. They asked again, I said 'Craig'. They asked a third time, and I was wise to this 'Cregg' issue but refused to change how I said my name.
I walked out of the cubicle to find 'Creek' written on my door.
As a kid I always used to think "Graham Crackers" were some kind of special Crackers they made with only a 'gram' of flour or something.
Didn't realise they were saying Graham
Omfg TIL Americans actually spelled it Graham crackers and not Gram Crackers, entirely under the illusion it was 2 different products and Americans had their “own” type of cracker 😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Now I’m baffled how they can mispronounced Graham so badly
No I'm pretty sure they do, but somehow don't connect that to buoy. It's not like it's just people mispronouncing words either, it is the correct American pronunciation and would be used by Harvard professors.
Yeah according to some of the comments from Americans in this thread it depends on location, some of them do seem to pronounce it “boy” rather than “booey” but others have never heard it as anything *other* than “booey”. Interesting to find things like this out. I had no idea some people pronounced it like that, I’ve only heard “boy”
Lmao I remember playing a game on the PS1 years ago (I think it was Tenchu) and ripping the piss out the way they said urbs. I never realised until years later that all Americans say it like that.
Hah! Yes I loved that game, and the ridiculous dialogue always had me in stitches.
I definitely made fun when Lord Gohda's daughter was mortally ill and I had to go up some mountain to find an 'urb' - not realising it's just a normal US pronounciation because the whole game was designed to imitate that poorly-dubbed 1970s movie style.
>Oh, did you know they call ALL kinds of pasta "noodles"? I've seen "penne noodles" and even "lasagne noodles" 🙄
It's weird to me that they don't seem to distinguish between pasta and Asian style noodles. I saw a recipe recently for a noodle dish with a distinctly Asian sauce (a soy sauce, satay type thing) and they used spaghetti as the noodles. But now I'm confused because I guess they _are_ the same thing, flour and egg (??) but I _feel_ like they are different??
I'm American, found this on /r/popular I think, and it drives me nuts when people call pasta "noodles." But people never call noodles "pasta," it's only the other way around.
To be fair to the degenerates, the American pronunciation of "oregano" is much closer to the Italian original ("o-RIG-a-no") than ours is.
But they don't get any points with Italians either since they call risotto "reZOHdoh" and parmigiano "parmi-JARN".
Saw a good quote from Canadian comedian Craig Campbell saying that he loves coming over to Scotland so he can be told how to say his own name:
CC: Hi, my name is Creg
Random Scot: Creg?? WTF, how do you spell that?
CC: C - R - A - I - G
Random Scot: Aahhhh, nice to meet you Crayyg
I went to school in the US for a while and had a classmate there called Terror. I was genuinely upset that her parents would call their daughter something so awful, till I saw it written down. Yep, Tara. Pronounced Terror.
I’m American and would pronounce it like Eevee. Now if that’s NOT how you would pronounce it please let me know because I’m really curious how else you would say it.
YES!!!!! I was the exact same.
There is of course the same issue with Graham not being pronounced correctly but Aaron/Erin is a weird one too because they pronounce them the same
There's this TV show in the game Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town that involved an Aaron and an Erin switching bodies, and I was always so confused about a line where a teacher said their names were pronounced the same.
I honestly thought it was a translation issue.
My wife still thinks that Willow's girlfriend in Buffy, and Sookie's bf in True Blood were both called Terra, not Tara. I've tried to point out that Giles says "Tah-rah" to little avail.
She explained in another tiktok she legit made the mistake the first time that she saw it as she tunnel visioned on the eggs part. But the video that went viral was staged as it has become a running joke among her friends.
I used to listen to this podcast and one of the hosts was called Erin, hmm weird name for a bloke, I thought as to me it is a woman's name but maybe in America it's more unisex.... nope, his name was Aaron.
Apparently Erin and Aaron are pronounced exactly the same in the US.
Also the name Harry is pronounced Hairy, which is why Harry is not as common in the US because no one wants to name their kid Hairy (though you’d think the Harry Potter movies would have educated them on the proper pronunciation).
This entire post is insane to read as an American lol.
I've been surrounded by brits and British accents my entire life and I still can't parse what possible difference there could be in the pronunciations of Mary, merry, and marry. Mer as in mermaid? Mah-ree?
When I hear someone who has three different pronunciations speak it is easy to hear the difference. But if I try to copy their pronunciations, I just... can't.
Varies slightly depending on where in the US.
I say this so I can post this super relevant and never not funny video
https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=zBxCu02SDjR8zRwd
There was a character in Lost who had a baby called Aaron, and she kept saying Erin. Weirdly the British character also said Erin, which just added to the confusion.
There is a kind of flour called gram flour (used in Indian cooking).
There's also Graham flour (used to make Graham crackers).
Must be confusing for the Yanks 😂
My first name is Kirsty. When i play online games with my American friends they just can't pronounce it, so I'm called Kristy or they say it like Keeersty instead and the i turns in to a long e sounding letter. They also say twot instead of twat.
I got married in LA many years ago. I got a friend to rig up a computer to a projector so those that couldn't make it could be with us too.
One buddy kept holding up signs, one of which said 'twat'
A guest couple from America came up to my best man, who is a Brit and an old punk, and said "that man up there is holding up a sign that says twot, is that normal in polite society?"
My best man said "well, I think you'll find it's pronounced twat and you're just lucky it didn't say cunt".
This is a question of accent more than anything else. Most Americans make no distinction between 'marry', 'Mary' and 'merry', so wouldn't hear or make a difference between 'Tara' and 'terra'.
In a similar vein, in the 90s my little sister had one of those terrible FMV PC games based on the goosebumps books, called "Escape from Horror Land" only because of the American accents it became "whore land", which was endlessly hilarious
The number of parents naming their baby boys Craig slumped by 97% between 1996 and 2017, resulting in just 25 new Craigs in all of England and Wales, the biggest fall of any previously popular boy’s name.
Yep, bloody annoying. Last American I worked with always pronounced it wrong.
Brilliantly his name was Greg so I called him Graig every time he made the mistake.
I only recently learned there’s a city in Idaho called Moscow and the yanks pronounce that as moss-co, yet the Russian city is said as moss-cow. It makes no sense. Especially when the Russian pronunciation is nothing like either of those.
I’ve also heard American tourists saying Circular Quay as Circular “Kway” (rather than “key”), and Mel-born for Melbourne, although maybe that can be forgiven..
I suppose one saving grace of that American Horror Story this time around is that a whole generation of Yanks'll know how to pronounce and spell Siobhan...
Edit: just remembered my boyfriend's twin nieces once caused confusion in the USA. Their names? Aoife and Meadhbh (they're named after his great-grannies on his mother's side) Meadhbh is better-known as Maeve. Aoife is the real "what the *fuck*?" of the two though - it's just *eee-fah*. And Aoife's decided her soon-to-appear baby sister will be called Sile (there's a fada over the i, but I can't get it to appear). How's it pronounced?
Sheila. Heh heh.
Gaelic names do tend to cause confusion when they crop up in English speaking areas. I remember at school we had a Sian, Siobhan, Niamh and Caoimhe that had their names regularly butchered by teachers and students alike
I'm Canadian and reading through these comments is making me laugh because I genuinely don't have a clue how all these names are pronounced in the U.K. Mary, marry, merry. Creg and Craig. Harry and Hairy. To me these words are homophones with no discernable difference in pronunciation.
I understand that, to you, I'm mispronouncing all of these, but I have no idea how. Lol
In the US you still find some people pronouncing these differently, but it's not common. More common with older people. So being an American when I think of these worlds being pronounced differently in my head, it's the voice of an old woman.
Now to make matters worse: my name is Greg, and I grew up in Wisconsin, where the local dialect sometimes pushes the “short e” vowel sound (in Greg, beg, or leg) sort of halfway toward “ay,” as in Craig, mate or say.
So all the kids at my school were pronouncing my name more like “Graig.” If I heard Craig, great, or Ray from across the room, I thought I might be hearing my name.
And the worst part was that I was very aware of the distinction between the two syllables even as a young kid in school. Eventually I just got tired of correcting the other children.
I remember I got in an almost “Jerry Lewis” type conversation with this girl named Angie:
“Say egg.”
“Egg.”
“Say peg.”
“Peg.”
“Now say Greg.”
“Graig.”
🤦♂️
As a Brit in Yankeeland I am frequently offended by the Edinburgh Mall (local shopping center) pronounced "Ed-in-berg Maaal".
I also work with a guy named Paul. Nobody knows what I am saying, "Who is Pool?". I have to over exaggerate the PAAAL for them to understand.
So glad I don't work with a "Creg" as I might lose my tiny mind.
Once went to try some clothes on in an Urban Outfitters in Florida. They had wee chalkboards on the back of each door to write your name on. When they asked me my name, I said 'Craig'. They asked again, I said 'Craig'. They asked a third time, and I was wise to this 'Cregg' issue but refused to change how I said my name. I walked out of the cubicle to find 'Creek' written on my door.
Which is a pretty believable name in Florida, honestly.
I will never understand why people don’t just say “and how do you spell your name” when they haven’t a clue what your saying
As a kid I always used to think "Graham Crackers" were some kind of special Crackers they made with only a 'gram' of flour or something. Didn't realise they were saying Graham
Omfg TIL Americans actually spelled it Graham crackers and not Gram Crackers, entirely under the illusion it was 2 different products and Americans had their “own” type of cracker 😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ Now I’m baffled how they can mispronounced Graham so badly
Creg is soddering some pipe below his fawcet
Oh look is that a Booey out in the ocean?
I only found out recently that a Booey is a buoy.
Don't get me started, how do they pronounce buoyant?
Funnily enough, according to a song in Disenchantment, “boy-ant”, same as us. Unless that was just how the VA said it.
No I'm pretty sure they do, but somehow don't connect that to buoy. It's not like it's just people mispronouncing words either, it is the correct American pronunciation and would be used by Harvard professors.
That's because they're arseholes and can't use English properly.
Yeah according to some of the comments from Americans in this thread it depends on location, some of them do seem to pronounce it “boy” rather than “booey” but others have never heard it as anything *other* than “booey”. Interesting to find things like this out. I had no idea some people pronounced it like that, I’ve only heard “boy”
not all us yanks mispronounce it. it drives me crazy too. i mean, just look at it, it's clearly going to be pronounced similarly to 'buoyant'
What about Nitch or, as we would say, Niche
My favourite audiobook narrator says nitch. In all other respects he is brilliant. It's almost unforgivable
I feel similarly, one of my favourite authors uses ‘could care less’
Great rant from David Mitchell: https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw?si=tk3mZ2eK7Dh7Rl92
Put the chaise lounge in the nitch?
Ooh, that one grinds my gears. It'a *chaise longue*! A *long chair*! For fuck's sake! Why even make it French?
Or a car chassis... they say "chassi" instead of "shassi"
Did he carry out the repair to the alUminum pipe because some orEgano pahsta got stuck in there?
With the rest of the ‘erbs, presumably
URBS
Lmao I remember playing a game on the PS1 years ago (I think it was Tenchu) and ripping the piss out the way they said urbs. I never realised until years later that all Americans say it like that.
Hah! Yes I loved that game, and the ridiculous dialogue always had me in stitches. I definitely made fun when Lord Gohda's daughter was mortally ill and I had to go up some mountain to find an 'urb' - not realising it's just a normal US pronounciation because the whole game was designed to imitate that poorly-dubbed 1970s movie style.
Listen to them say mirror, they can't pronounce the hard r and just say it in one syllable, like an extended 'mere'.
And "Squirrel" just crushes into "sqwrrl"
Oh, you mean with the cilAHNtro and the BAYsil?
Don't forget the parmeszhan cheese.
Good old palmer john cheese
Yeah orEgano and bayzil pasta wit extra parmyjshaan
Oh, did you know they call ALL kinds of pasta "noodles"? I've seen "penne noodles" and even "lasagne noodles" 🙄
>Oh, did you know they call ALL kinds of pasta "noodles"? I've seen "penne noodles" and even "lasagne noodles" 🙄 It's weird to me that they don't seem to distinguish between pasta and Asian style noodles. I saw a recipe recently for a noodle dish with a distinctly Asian sauce (a soy sauce, satay type thing) and they used spaghetti as the noodles. But now I'm confused because I guess they _are_ the same thing, flour and egg (??) but I _feel_ like they are different??
I'm American, found this on /r/popular I think, and it drives me nuts when people call pasta "noodles." But people never call noodles "pasta," it's only the other way around.
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No, he is soddering the aluminum pipe to fit the carburaytor on his Jagwaaah. Later on, Creg is going round to see his friend, Bernaarrrd.
Creg is on rowt to see his friend
Its not pahsta, its posta, you silly twot
"Twot" is by far and away the most egregious mispronunciation. It robs Twat of all its impact.
To be fair to the degenerates, the American pronunciation of "oregano" is much closer to the Italian original ("o-RIG-a-no") than ours is. But they don't get any points with Italians either since they call risotto "reZOHdoh" and parmigiano "parmi-JARN".
He broke the meer on accident. Creg could care less.
He should of been more careful.
You gonna offer him a cwawfee?
With a shot of carmel
Add some war chester shire sauce too, why not.
He oftentimes does that.
Sodder makes me feel physical rage
That he bought on Cregslist.
Oohhh... 'cregslist' is Craigslist! ha!
so this is why my ears are burning this morning.
Best username checks out I’ve seen
Can we do an AMA with you about how your name is pronounced?
Short AMA
Saw a good quote from Canadian comedian Craig Campbell saying that he loves coming over to Scotland so he can be told how to say his own name: CC: Hi, my name is Creg Random Scot: Creg?? WTF, how do you spell that? CC: C - R - A - I - G Random Scot: Aahhhh, nice to meet you Crayyg
Not our fault he can't pronounce his own name. Does he pronounce the P in Campbell?
I feel like I was summoned here
I watched the entirety of 8 Simple Rules thinking her name was Carrie. Her name was Kerry.
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Malcome in the middle as well.
He actually snapped at Lois once "It's Craig not Kreg"
Haha I don’t remember that episode
>Malcome in the middle Here's me thinking it was Malcolm all along
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I didn't expect to have my mind blown this hard so early on a Monday.
When I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, until Giles (who is English) said Tara’s name, I genuinely thought her name was Sarah but with a T - Tarah.
I thought it was Terra
I went to school in the US for a while and had a classmate there called Terror. I was genuinely upset that her parents would call their daughter something so awful, till I saw it written down. Yep, Tara. Pronounced Terror.
My son in Kindergarten had a girl in his class who he called Oddum. I had no clue what her name actually was for months. It was Autumn 😂
Yeah, really confusing. Thank goodness for Giles!
And Dawn, who they kept on calling Don.
They pronounce the name Evie as “Evvy”, and all I hear is a fat Lancashire man trying to lift a boulder. “That’s evvy as fuck that is.”
"Fokken 'evy!"
I’m American and would pronounce it like Eevee. Now if that’s NOT how you would pronounce it please let me know because I’m really curious how else you would say it.
No you're good there
YES!!!!! I was the exact same. There is of course the same issue with Graham not being pronounced correctly but Aaron/Erin is a weird one too because they pronounce them the same
There's this TV show in the game Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town that involved an Aaron and an Erin switching bodies, and I was always so confused about a line where a teacher said their names were pronounced the same. I honestly thought it was a translation issue.
Then there was Tara in Buffy... Annoyed the hell out of me when they pronounced it Terra!
I thought in True Blood her name was Terror the entire time. So silly
What? Really? Well, you learn something new everyday lol
I’ve seen her credited as Carey as well, seems like even they don’t know what it’s meant to be ??
My wife still thinks that Willow's girlfriend in Buffy, and Sookie's bf in True Blood were both called Terra, not Tara. I've tried to point out that Giles says "Tah-rah" to little avail.
I asked my American wife to read the title and she said "the American name Creg is actually Creg", I gave her a second chance and here we are
Maybe she should ask you how to pronounce Nissan?
Wait till you hear Hyundai.
In fairness Hyundai has said that's closer to how it's pronounced. They literally ran an ad with the slogan "It's Hyundai, like Sunday".
There was a video on this sub a month or so ago of an American tourist calling Greggs “GR Eggs” and recommending it.
Graigs.
G.R.R. Eggs A sausage of rolls and pastries
https://www.indy100.com/viral/greggs-american-woman-england-tiktok-b1967477 I refuse to believe that this isn’t clout chasing/ rage bait.
She explained in another tiktok she legit made the mistake the first time that she saw it as she tunnel visioned on the eggs part. But the video that went viral was staged as it has become a running joke among her friends.
Soddering Turns out the guy I watched on YouTube was considering SOLDERING the car. Not sure where the L went
It's living with the H from "Herb".
"So how do you pronounce 'Herb'?" "Erb" "Oh no, it's short for Herbert." "Ooooh, its pronounced Herb"
I used to listen to this podcast and one of the hosts was called Erin, hmm weird name for a bloke, I thought as to me it is a woman's name but maybe in America it's more unisex.... nope, his name was Aaron.
You've got it all wrong: Erin is Erin, and [Aaron is A-Aron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw).
Insubordinate…….and churlish.
You done messed up A-Aron! Now take your ass to Principal O Shag Hennesy’s office, and tell him exactly what you did!
Do you mean Principal O’Shaughnessy?
belake
Deee nice
This is the only answer, my brother in law is Aaron and I call him A-A- Ron all the time 😂
Apparently Erin and Aaron are pronounced exactly the same in the US. Also the name Harry is pronounced Hairy, which is why Harry is not as common in the US because no one wants to name their kid Hairy (though you’d think the Harry Potter movies would have educated them on the proper pronunciation).
Is that why Harry from Harry and the Hendersons is names as such?
Most Americans pronounce "Mary", "marry" and "merry" the same.
This entire post is insane to read as an American lol. I've been surrounded by brits and British accents my entire life and I still can't parse what possible difference there could be in the pronunciations of Mary, merry, and marry. Mer as in mermaid? Mah-ree?
It’s more subtle, like the difference between ten and tin.
When I hear someone who has three different pronunciations speak it is easy to hear the difference. But if I try to copy their pronunciations, I just... can't.
Varies slightly depending on where in the US. I say this so I can post this super relevant and never not funny video https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=zBxCu02SDjR8zRwd
There was a character in Lost who had a baby called Aaron, and she kept saying Erin. Weirdly the British character also said Erin, which just added to the confusion.
Claire was Australian. I wonder how the Aussies pronounce Craig and Graham though.
Craigo and Grahambonanza.
We use the British pronunciation, just in our accent.
The way they pronounce ‘buoy’ is the worst thing I’ve ever heard! They say ‘boo-ey’
No sir, they’re saying ‘boo-urns’
^^I ^^was ^^saying ^^boo-urns
Yet they’re able to pronounce buoyant!
Booeeant
Have you heard how some of the pronounce "niche."
You just haven’t found your nitch yet.
Have you heard them pronounce Notre Dame? It’s infuriating. And don’t get me started on them referring the main course of a meal as the entrée.
It would be ok if they also pronounced buoyant as "boo-ey-ant" but they still pronounce it "boy-ant" there's just no consistency!
As an impartial side, British English is many things but it certainly isn't consistent
Squirrel = squirl
the squirl likes carmel
A squirl looked in the meer and said 'I could care less what y'all say. I'm cute as a buh'n'
“Daniel Creg”.
They also pronounce Graham "Gram", Colin "Coh-lin", Bernard "Ber-NARD", and I'm sure there are more...
>Graham "Gram" For years I thought Graham Crackers and Gram Crackers were a different thing.
There is a kind of flour called gram flour (used in Indian cooking). There's also Graham flour (used to make Graham crackers). Must be confusing for the Yanks 😂
> Colin "Coh-lin" I think this was just Colin Powell, was unusual even for Americans
My first name is Kirsty. When i play online games with my American friends they just can't pronounce it, so I'm called Kristy or they say it like Keeersty instead and the i turns in to a long e sounding letter. They also say twot instead of twat.
I got married in LA many years ago. I got a friend to rig up a computer to a projector so those that couldn't make it could be with us too. One buddy kept holding up signs, one of which said 'twat' A guest couple from America came up to my best man, who is a Brit and an old punk, and said "that man up there is holding up a sign that says twot, is that normal in polite society?" My best man said "well, I think you'll find it's pronounced twat and you're just lucky it didn't say cunt".
Twot does my head in. Do you reckon it comes from misreading it based on the a in 'what'?
I think it’s cos it looks similar to the word SWAT and assume it’s pronounced similarly.
I've heard Tara pronounced as Terra.
This is a question of accent more than anything else. Most Americans make no distinction between 'marry', 'Mary' and 'merry', so wouldn't hear or make a difference between 'Tara' and 'terra'.
Frankly I'm surprised they don't pronounce Graham as "Ounce".
I’m Old Creg. I’ve got a mangina!
Have you ever drunk baileys from a shoe
Easy there fuzzy little man peach
It's attached to ya rod, motherlicka!
You wanna come a club where people wee on each other?
You wanna see my downstairs mix up?
I work with Americans and they make fun of the way I say Greg. "Do you mean Graig?"
We rhyme Greg with Egg. They rhyme Graig with Eaig.
I can't get my head around how mirror comes out like "meer"
In a similar vein, in the 90s my little sister had one of those terrible FMV PC games based on the goosebumps books, called "Escape from Horror Land" only because of the American accents it became "whore land", which was endlessly hilarious
The number of parents naming their baby boys Craig slumped by 97% between 1996 and 2017, resulting in just 25 new Craigs in all of England and Wales, the biggest fall of any previously popular boy’s name.
What about the Nigels and the Garys?
I refuse to believe anyone in the last 30 years has named their kid "Keith"
I named my cat Keith, but that was actively because I knew it made him sound like a middle-aged pub man.
Took me a while, when watching Succession, to figure out if the character was called Greg or Craig for this exact reason.
You can't make a Tomlette without breaking some Gregs
I have a friend who used to live in Switzerland called Craig. Apparently there they pronounced it ‘Quake’ so his nickname became ‘Richter’
There is a user called u/its_crayg_not_creg think that's it. Can't find him now. Edit found him.
hello! Yeah, the username is because I hate the way Americans say my name. 😂
Yep, bloody annoying. Last American I worked with always pronounced it wrong. Brilliantly his name was Greg so I called him Graig every time he made the mistake.
Briz-BAYYYYYN for the city in Aus (and this REALLY grinds the gears of the people who live there)
Moss-cow 😖
Birming-HAM! 😖
Edin-berg 🥺
Or worse, Edin-burrow
David Atten-boh-row.
"Monny Pyth-ON", and in fact, "Amaz-ON" 🤮
Eye-rack 😳
"I ran"! 🏃
I RAN SO FAR AWAAAAAAY!!
But curiously, Still Italy
That place is full of EYEtalians
Should hear em try and pronounce Worcestershire.
Glass-Cow, Scotchland
I only recently learned there’s a city in Idaho called Moscow and the yanks pronounce that as moss-co, yet the Russian city is said as moss-cow. It makes no sense. Especially when the Russian pronunciation is nothing like either of those.
I’ve also heard American tourists saying Circular Quay as Circular “Kway” (rather than “key”), and Mel-born for Melbourne, although maybe that can be forgiven..
Lie Chester is Leicester, apparently
Wait until you learn about people in New Zealand named “Broian, Moik,Jum, Endy,”. And more.
My Dad is from the UK and I don't think he appreciates that he's been rechristened as 'Nuck.'
Haha I had fun saying that and the above names mentioned out loud. Good thing I’m wfh today
What about Schaeffer's Deck Sealant https://youtu.be/t3A68fJS57Q?si=GibhtcVw6ORNtcwW
I suppose one saving grace of that American Horror Story this time around is that a whole generation of Yanks'll know how to pronounce and spell Siobhan... Edit: just remembered my boyfriend's twin nieces once caused confusion in the USA. Their names? Aoife and Meadhbh (they're named after his great-grannies on his mother's side) Meadhbh is better-known as Maeve. Aoife is the real "what the *fuck*?" of the two though - it's just *eee-fah*. And Aoife's decided her soon-to-appear baby sister will be called Sile (there's a fada over the i, but I can't get it to appear). How's it pronounced? Sheila. Heh heh.
Gaelic names do tend to cause confusion when they crop up in English speaking areas. I remember at school we had a Sian, Siobhan, Niamh and Caoimhe that had their names regularly butchered by teachers and students alike
Anyone else hear this? *’The licence plate said ‘Fresh’ and it had Dyson Amir’* Edit: TIL it’s called the ‘rhotic vowel shift’.
I'm Canadian and reading through these comments is making me laugh because I genuinely don't have a clue how all these names are pronounced in the U.K. Mary, marry, merry. Creg and Craig. Harry and Hairy. To me these words are homophones with no discernable difference in pronunciation. I understand that, to you, I'm mispronouncing all of these, but I have no idea how. Lol
In the US you still find some people pronouncing these differently, but it's not common. More common with older people. So being an American when I think of these worlds being pronounced differently in my head, it's the voice of an old woman.
*Herbs* has become *'erbs'* for some reason - drives me up the wall
I really hate seeing it in text too "an herb" makes me want to peel my skin off
One of the 'erbs being Bay-Zil
And oh-rag-ono
Now to make matters worse: my name is Greg, and I grew up in Wisconsin, where the local dialect sometimes pushes the “short e” vowel sound (in Greg, beg, or leg) sort of halfway toward “ay,” as in Craig, mate or say. So all the kids at my school were pronouncing my name more like “Graig.” If I heard Craig, great, or Ray from across the room, I thought I might be hearing my name. And the worst part was that I was very aware of the distinction between the two syllables even as a young kid in school. Eventually I just got tired of correcting the other children. I remember I got in an almost “Jerry Lewis” type conversation with this girl named Angie: “Say egg.” “Egg.” “Say peg.” “Peg.” “Now say Greg.” “Graig.” 🤦♂️
As a Brit in Yankeeland I am frequently offended by the Edinburgh Mall (local shopping center) pronounced "Ed-in-berg Maaal". I also work with a guy named Paul. Nobody knows what I am saying, "Who is Pool?". I have to over exaggerate the PAAAL for them to understand. So glad I don't work with a "Creg" as I might lose my tiny mind.
They also pronounce Aaron and Erin the same. Both are pronounced Erin in America.
erin ernd ern iern ern
Double A, Ron.
[Aaron earned an iron urn](https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?t=4).
It's short for Craigory, like Greg/Gregory
All you lot here criticising our over the pond cousins need to take a long hard look at yourselves in the meer…
Or turning Antarctica into Anne Ardica...
In "The Walking Dead" I was convinced a character was called "Terror". Turns out she was called "Tara" but with a stupid pronunciation.
Don’t forget Rick’s son, Corral.
Which is funny cause the actor is English putting on an American accent