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Nymph to Eve

Started by paulmwatson · 10 months ago

How on god’s green earth does Niamh end up being pronounced Neve? Irish name pronounciation is a study in the black-arts I tell you. Another one is Siobhan which is pronounced Chevaun. Keh? Come again?

And just to hammer home the point my Irish mate just told me how I bastardised the two names above. I [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Steve Crane

    3 years ago

    Perhaps you're too young to remember the heydays of Scope magazine when one of the top models was Sian Adey-Jones. Most teenage boys thought her name was pronounced "See-ann" but of course it was something like "Shan". She was Welsh of course. Welsh, Irish, all those Gaelic languages have funny pronunciation.
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  • Paul Watson

    3 years ago

    Oh, good old Scope. I do remember it though not enough to go around naming models in it.

    I always thought the Red Nose day issues were the funniest things.
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