I don't mind when people use this knowing it's the Irish form, but I HATE seeing it because you know half the time it's just that the people don't know how to spell Michael properly or want to be 'different' (how different can you be with just a slightly different variant of one of the most popular names of the century?)
-- Anonymous User 6/8/2007
I agree. If you want the Irish form of Micheal, then spell it with the fadas; Mícheál. It makes all the difference. And come on, Micheal looks like a typo, and everyone would pronounce it just the same as Michael.