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Help[Opinions] Re: pronunciation + Elvis
in reply to a message by Katie
When my little brother was born, there was a mother of twins at the birthing centre. The twins were boys and they were called Elvis and Christian.
"My husband decided that one son would be called Elvis," she said. "He's a big Elvis fan."
I wouldn't suspect anything else. I think it's very rare to choose the name Elvis simply because you like the name.
BTW, Swedish author Maria Gripe (1923 - 2007) wrote a series of much-loved books about a boy called Elvis Karlsson.
Funny that you asked about mispronounced names, because I've wanted to ask just the same thing!
I used to pronounce:
Sorcha - SORE-cha instead of SAWR-ə-khə
Saoirse - SHORE-sa instead of SEER-sha. I thought it was an Irish form of Georgia, because I mixed it up with Seoirse.
Remedios - re-me-DEE-os instead of re-ME-dyos.
I actually stopped liking these names when I found out the correct pronounciations!
I think Mikhail is pronounced mi-CHYLE or mi-HILE (rhyming with "while").
Oh, some other names I have mispronounced:
When I first saw the name Imogen (I read that Andrew Lloyd Webber has a daughter with this name), I was about twelve, didn't know much English and thought "What the heck?" I first tried EYE-mo-ghen and then i-MO-shen. For many years I thought it was immo-GENE before I finally found out that it's pronounced IM-mo-jen.
I also pronounced Sinéad as SIN-ned and Siobhan as SUE-an. Until just recently I thought that Oenone was O-en-one (as if saying "O.N. One") and Mnemosyne MNEM-o-syne.
Does the sea exist
Because of our longing?
My PNL
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/3258/61573
"My husband decided that one son would be called Elvis," she said. "He's a big Elvis fan."
I wouldn't suspect anything else. I think it's very rare to choose the name Elvis simply because you like the name.
BTW, Swedish author Maria Gripe (1923 - 2007) wrote a series of much-loved books about a boy called Elvis Karlsson.
Funny that you asked about mispronounced names, because I've wanted to ask just the same thing!
I used to pronounce:
Sorcha - SORE-cha instead of SAWR-ə-khə
Saoirse - SHORE-sa instead of SEER-sha. I thought it was an Irish form of Georgia, because I mixed it up with Seoirse.
Remedios - re-me-DEE-os instead of re-ME-dyos.
I actually stopped liking these names when I found out the correct pronounciations!
I think Mikhail is pronounced mi-CHYLE or mi-HILE (rhyming with "while").
Oh, some other names I have mispronounced:
When I first saw the name Imogen (I read that Andrew Lloyd Webber has a daughter with this name), I was about twelve, didn't know much English and thought "What the heck?" I first tried EYE-mo-ghen and then i-MO-shen. For many years I thought it was immo-GENE before I finally found out that it's pronounced IM-mo-jen.
I also pronounced Sinéad as SIN-ned and Siobhan as SUE-an. Until just recently I thought that Oenone was O-en-one (as if saying "O.N. One") and Mnemosyne MNEM-o-syne.
Does the sea exist
Because of our longing?
My PNL
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/3258/61573
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