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And when she's in school and it's time for them to learn about phonics and diphthongs (do they still teach that?)...they'll all learn the sordid truth:
Her name, when pronounced *correctly* would be...
Eh..
More..
Egg.
Good job, mom and dad. You are now in the running for "meanest cruelest insensitive parent" award.
And when she's in school and it's time for them to learn about phonics and diphthongs (do they still teach that?)...they'll all learn the sordid truth:
Her name, when pronounced *correctly* would be...
Eh..
More..
Egg.
Good job, mom and dad. You are now in the running for "meanest cruelest insensitive parent" award.
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Originally Posted by sll3454
I'd stick with something that follows some phonetic rules. The eigh is pronounced with a long a. Think weigh and sleigh.
Emery is best. Short, feminine, and neat.
The english language as i am SURE you are aware is not that cut and dry. Eigh does not in my experience ever make the egg sound, perhaps an example? And Eigh does commonly make the ay sound, but it also makes the long e sound. I dont love the spelling they are preferring because I dont like when people replace the ey at the end with eigh but there is nothing wrong with it phonetically. Noone is going to think her name is Eh.more.egg or emoray. Because its just as likely someone in her class will be Rileigh or Haleigh or something similar. Raleigh NC is pronounced with a long e, no a.
It makes the "ee" sound in corrupted names. People also don't seem to realize that altering the way things are spelled can changed the cadence of a word. Emoreigh would likely have the accent on the second syllable: eh-MORE-ee, even when corrupting the "eigh."
The reason eigh works is because 1) ei makes a long e sound in the words priest, relief, chieftain, grievous, field, belief, yield, thief, shriek and 2) the gh sound is silent. Like in rough, tough, daughter.
So pronouncing eigh as the long e is not mispronouncing it or corrupting it. Its combining different rules to make an attractive spelling.
The reason eigh works is because 1) ei makes a long e sound in the words priest, relief, chieftain, grievous, field, belief, yield, thief, shriek and 2) the gh sound is silent. Like in rough, tough, daughter.
So pronouncing eigh as the long e is not mispronouncing it or corrupting it. Its combining different rules to make an attractive spelling.
Sorry. Even that depends on the speaker's dialect.
Like I tell my husband, being from a different area doesnt excuse mispronunciation if you know the correct way to say it. And its pronounced with a long e.
Okay. But when a person makes up rules about sounds, it's reasonable to expect people to stick to the rules already established.
You've heard the joke that "ghoti" sounds like "fish," right? GH sounds like F (except it doesn't at the beginning of a word or by itself), O sounds like a short I as in "women" (except that's a schwa and doesn't go wherever people feel like sticking it) and TI sounds like SH as in "nation" (except that's TION, not TI).
If you patch together sounds to invent a word without regard for established rules and pronunciations, you end up with names like Kaellieye and silly things like that.
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