Showerthoughts

29239 readers

652 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

Rules

All posts must be showerthoughts
The entire showerthought must be in the title
Posts must be original/unique
Be good to others - no bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia
Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

261

There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

274 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Welcome to the world of Irish names!

We got:

Dearbhla (Derv-la, f)
caoilfhionn (kee-lin, f)
Meadhbh (Maeve, f)
Saoirse (seer-shuh, f)
Seoirse (shor-shuh, m)
Caoimhín (kee-veen, m)
Sadhbh (sive, f)

And many more!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hope do you pronounce Siobhan?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Shuh-vawn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My American accent pronounces it "Shove-on".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There’s meant to be a fada over the a (á), so it’s definitely meant to be a longer vowel sound.

Take the name Sean for example. Spelled like that it’s actually pronounced shan, and means old. The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán

And, fun fact, is the Irish version of the Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן) from which we get John and Jean and Jehan and Johan and Shane and Juan and many other variants!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Everybody's named John. All the way back. There is only one name, just lots of different spellings and pronunciations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It actually helps a little if you realize the Russian letter В is pronounced like an English V.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We should re-do Romanization. Start over, sound it out, have a big Anglosphere conference to decide on what letters make what noise and stick to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Many of the slavic romanizations have largely centralised on strict roman phonetics. There are still exceptions, but many of them can be sounded out with a bit of learning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah. English doesn't use the "bh" and "dh" digraphs the same way we use "th", but Irish does. One you learn that, that's like 80-90% of the confusion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My Irish cousin-in-law recently had a daughter and named her Blathnaid. I was very surprised to learn it is pronounced Bla-nid