Sorry Billybob but the only thing that springs to my mind when I see a name like Billybob, is inbreeding yank rednecks, now I do apologise if I am under a little misapprehension, and you are not one of our colonial cousins, but the rest fits quite aptly.


You see there are rules for English, and there are exceptions to the rules, you just have to accept them.

One other thing you really should bear in mind if it can cope with simultaneous concepts, that is, just as if you ever went to the land of the Gauls (France) your name would be pronounced by them as something very different. Would you like to have to respell your name for every country you may possibly travel to?

I just feel like Caoimhe is so distant from the sound "kee-vuh" it's lolworthy, and obviously the ToT agrees. I don't find it pretentious. I have no problem with an extra "sh" sound or even big stretches like "Colonel" so long as the beginning and end give me a clue, but if your name is 阿比盖尔, yes I'm going to ask for a "dumbing down". Literally the only letter that makes sense is the "C", and that's pushing it.

I think the Caoihewfmweklfmwe meme is hilarious and should continue.:dance:

she should be called susan

I was talking about Billy....:nono::nono::nono::nono:

Crap! Sorry, I'm new here and don't know what I'm doing.:flowers:

You're being very ignorant.

Caoimhe is not pronounced Keeva in English, because it's not an English name.

It's Irish which, like all languages, have different rules on pronunciation

It's just like French, for example "qui" (who) is pronounced "key", whereas in English (if it was a word) it'd probably be pronounced queue.

Or an easier example, Oui is pronounced "Wee" in French, but in English it'd be said was "ooo" or something similar

In Irish, Caoimhe is pronounced Keeva.

I once knew a Johnathan (Jonathan) who was a right old Wendy....does that count?

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