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Why does this name only appear on this website in the Irish form as Niamh, which is actually the vocative?
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I'm not an expert in Irish, but I'm fairly sure the vocative case of Niamh would be 'a Niamh'
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Well, if even the official Irish statistics office lists the name with a "h" at the end, I would not dare to drop it:
http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/ibn/irishbabiesnames2015/
(Open the first table "Table 1 Top 100 babies' names registered in 2015, in order of popularity, with corresponding rank between 2010 and 2015")
THe Scottish statistics office does the same: With "h", not without it.
http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/ibn/irishbabiesnames2015/
(Open the first table "Table 1 Top 100 babies' names registered in 2015, in order of popularity, with corresponding rank between 2010 and 2015")
THe Scottish statistics office does the same: With "h", not without it.
This message was edited 1/18/2017, 8:40 AM
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Probably the Niamh spelling reflects the most usual usage. In the same kind of way, Mhairi is the usual spelling but outside Scotland the Mh- is pronounced like a normal M. I don't think that telling people that they're making a mistake will change their behaviour: they'd be more likely to complain that the site doesn't contain their name.
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