Until I was about 25
I thought that Siobhan was pronounced Si-Oh-Ban. I also thought that Siobahn (pronounced the correct way) was an entirely different name.

Stupid bloody way of spelling it anyway.

I also believed that everyone who wasn't a copper as an adult had to spend time in prison.
(dchurch bah, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:36, 11 replies)

I had been pronouncing 'Naimh'
'Neema' until only recently myself and had assumed the 'Neev' was a nickname.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:22, closed)

I've met someone whose was called "Shervonne", probably a result of her parents having the same belief.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:16, closed)

Mispronounced and/or misspelled Irish names
are very popular with The Poor, I am told.
(ubergeekian, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:44, closed)

Quite common among idiots as well.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 21:04, closed)

we have a 'shevaun' on the phone list at work.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 3:51, closed)

Being asked to call out a list of names and getting
Gráinne.
Ho hum, yelling "Grain, Grain?" to be met with blank stares.
I mean, grawn-yuh? really?

I'll get over it.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 22:45, closed)

There was a girl whose parents chose her name from a book.

Until she started school, she was taught her name was "Pen-Err-Lope" (Penelope).
(xixax, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 23:35, closed)

When the first few Harry Potter books were out but before the movies
I heard some twat loudly announce that he had named his daughter Hermione after Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter books.

He was pronouncing it Her-Mee-Own.
( Peej, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 11:41, closed)

If minlan jnr (currently in the oven) turns out to be a girl
I want to call her Sadhbh (Sive, rhymes with five) just to fuck with my (British) side of the family.

mrs minlan says this is a bad reason to choose a name.
(minlan no longer barks at bancleys, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 12:41, closed)

I think
it's an excellent reason.

A mate of mine's surname is 'Barry', when his wife had one in the oven I suggested that if it were a boy, to call it Barry. Sadly, they didn't go for it.
(dchurch bah, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 14:58, closed)

^ All manner of this
I think Irish spellings are stupid and I AM Irish. Of the four languages I speak none has remotely as wide a discrepancy between how a word is written and how it's pronounced as Gaeilge (Irish) does.

N.B. I don't speak Gaeilge, but enough of my family have unpronounceable names to have given me a flavour of it.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 11:24, closed)