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[Opinions] Re: Niamh...

by Irish_Clare

2/20/2007, 11:51 AM

in reply to a message by Cassandra113

I like it, and spelled this way rather than Neve / Neev. It would probably get mispronounced a lot though.

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- The Little Hyphen +4

2/20/2007, 12:07 PM

I agree with everything you just said! There would be pronunciation problems, but don't you think eventually as it becomes more popular, people would just learn the pronunciation? Like the name "Sean", it's very rare for this name to be mispronounced, and eventually the pronunciation would just be known. I'm not sure this makes sense but hopefully you understand what I mean!!!

- Irish_Clare +3

2/20/2007, 12:15 PM

I get what you mean, but one of my friends said Sean as "seen" for fifteen years before anyone corrected her : /
You can blame Sean Bean for that though, it confused her that the names had the same ending but different pronunciations!

- Claire (guest)

2/20/2007, 1:12 PM

LOL, my sister did that too

- The Little Hyphen +1

2/20/2007, 12:24 PM

Lol, thats quite funny! I was thinking about Sean Bean as I wrote it! It's quite an unfortunate name...

- Lauren B (guest)

2/20/2007, 1:02 PM

My dad always says 'seen' bean, but he knows it's really 'shaun,' he just does it to be irritating. (and it works, it drives me insane! :) )

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