Did the Tree of Temptation Speak Truth?
 

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Yeah no need to hear your ****e twice

Err no?

She's Irish and that name was probably gaelic to start with. Its a part of her heritage, and where she comes from. I'm Irish too, my full name is Niall (pronounced like the river Nile) Patrick McCrohan. Even though it really pisses me off when someone mispronounces my name, I like my name because its unique and reminds that I'm Irish. I don't wanna change my name at all.

Caoimhe is probably used to having her name mispronounced as well, and probably wouldn't have thought much of the tree taking the mick.

I still think her name is prounounced Kwee-va, but maybe thats just the pronounciation in Munster

thats how we say it over here too

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Thats how we pronounce it in Wexford too...:xyxwave:

blame her parents not her

Nahh it's her bloody name she can't help it. I have a good friend who's name get's pronouned wrong all the time but she lives with it.

but this did make me laugh:

i agree but she's irish! so name spelling are always weird ie oraith from bb6 :joker:

fair enough. But do you have any proof that "Caoimhe" is translated as keeva into English? Don't take it as a p... take. I am just genially curious as to how that writing translates in to "Keeva".

My first name is spelt "Robert" but you pronounce it "John":joker:

Huh? It's a normal spelling to the irish. ?? xxxxx

my named is "stonedape" but it's pronounced "Siavash" itsirishdonthate

Wow you really have some sort of pathological hatred of her dont you? Thats two threads now on the same thing, her name.

Did some Irish girl with a name that looks different to the way its spelled stand you up, give you a dose or something?

You can share with us, we wont laugh(much)

Irish was not originally written with the Roman alphabet; it has been approximately transliterated. It has broad and slender consonants, depending on the vowels around it. Let's take the letters apart:

c - pronounced as /k/ due to following "a"
aoi - pronounced as a long /i/ or "ee" in English due to the following "mh" forcing the triphthong sequence into a diphthong
mh - pronounced as /v/ as it's slender (the broad equivalent is /w/)
e - unstressed /ə/ due to placement at the end of the word

Thus, we get the approximation of "Keeva."