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HelpRe: Niamh when not Irish?
in reply to a message by Summer
no joke, my name is Tabitha (said exactly as it looks - tab-ith-ah) and yet people - fellow born and bred Americans whose first language is English - constantly mispronounce my name! I've gotten tab-ee-tha, tab-ee-tah (some seem to think it's Scandinavian or something, unless they're Latin and then it's understandable as they don't have the "th" sound), tayb-ith-ah, tayb-ee-tha, etc... my least favorite mispronunciation is a subtle one however that really used to piss me off as a kid - tab-ah-tha! NO! I don't have an 'a' in my name!
So, yeah, it doesn't matter. I say go with Niamh because no matter what, people will say it wrong, even if it's spelled Neve.
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
"Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"
- 'Home', Michael Buble
So, yeah, it doesn't matter. I say go with Niamh because no matter what, people will say it wrong, even if it's spelled Neve.
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"
- 'Home', Michael Buble
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Yeah, I find that nobody seems to ever want to say my whole name anyway, lol. In the two places I've worked, I needed a name-tag both times and I had my full name on there but everybody called me Tabby or Tab or, more commonly, Tabs (I'm unaware of when I became a plural...). I think it's supposed to be like Babs or something. Anyhoo, even teachers have rarely ever called me Tabitha. It's a strange phenomenon, though I hate it when strangers do it (which is more common down here in Miami than it was in Chicago).
God I could go on about this! lol but I'll stop now :)
But I must add - I can't stand any other spelling of Tabitha! Especially Tabytha (I've actually met a few of those - all under the age of 10 of course...). It's just... grrr... but, yeah, anyhoo, moving on, people are surprisingly stupid a lot of the time. I don't understand it but I seriously hope that my experiences have been the result of brain farts on the others' sides.
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
"Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"
- 'Home', Michael Buble
God I could go on about this! lol but I'll stop now :)
But I must add - I can't stand any other spelling of Tabitha! Especially Tabytha (I've actually met a few of those - all under the age of 10 of course...). It's just... grrr... but, yeah, anyhoo, moving on, people are surprisingly stupid a lot of the time. I don't understand it but I seriously hope that my experiences have been the result of brain farts on the others' sides.
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"
- 'Home', Michael Buble
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