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Help[Opinions] Re: What names are hard for you to pronounce?
in reply to a message by Username7
Some hard consonant - hard consonant names can be really hard to say, make you trip over yourself.
Same for soft - soft or th-f f-th sounds repeated together.
Guess where some of my family is from when I say 'l' is a bugger I trip over from time to time when I'm talking fast, especially when it's paired with a hard consonant. I never have managed to teach most of my grandfather's family to say 'film' in one syllable, it was always two syllables. Fortunately said names are rare, much rarer than words.
Th/ph/f English orthographies can be confusing even for a native speaker. And I'm still not sure I'm saying Phineas right. Spiky names with lots of consonants will trip me up as well if I'm chatting away.
I am good at mimicking sounds so if I hear a name I can usually get it down pretty well after a few times, so I guess names are harder for me to pronounce if I have to guess how to say it based on how they're spelled. That's where I'd struggle. I can get the pronunciation from Irish, Russian and French names almost all of the time, and a lot of people struggle with those, but there are definitely some other languages where I do not get how the sounds match up with the words (or anglicisations).
Oh and Greer... yes...what is that. Is it one syllable? Two syllables? Those names that can have two syllables or be very mushy and soft confuse me a lot.
Same for soft - soft or th-f f-th sounds repeated together.
Guess where some of my family is from when I say 'l' is a bugger I trip over from time to time when I'm talking fast, especially when it's paired with a hard consonant. I never have managed to teach most of my grandfather's family to say 'film' in one syllable, it was always two syllables. Fortunately said names are rare, much rarer than words.
Th/ph/f English orthographies can be confusing even for a native speaker. And I'm still not sure I'm saying Phineas right. Spiky names with lots of consonants will trip me up as well if I'm chatting away.
I am good at mimicking sounds so if I hear a name I can usually get it down pretty well after a few times, so I guess names are harder for me to pronounce if I have to guess how to say it based on how they're spelled. That's where I'd struggle. I can get the pronunciation from Irish, Russian and French names almost all of the time, and a lot of people struggle with those, but there are definitely some other languages where I do not get how the sounds match up with the words (or anglicisations).
Oh and Greer... yes...what is that. Is it one syllable? Two syllables? Those names that can have two syllables or be very mushy and soft confuse me a lot.
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