Discussion: How do you pronounce the name Aoife?

What are these words? :joy:

Lol, I can’t imagine how zoo-ey sounds tbh, like if you say zoo and then and an I sound basically :thinking::rofl:

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Weird. :hushed:

Lol, can I post some Dutch names, I am curious how people would pronounce them?

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Of course! :white_heart:

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Gun-thair

Jo-a-quim

Horst?

Bridge-itte

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Gun-ther basically
Jo-a-giem, lol I can’t write down how I pronounce it
Hor-st, like you write it :woman_shrugging:
Brid-g-itte

Lol, these names are pretty close to Dutch so it’s hard to write them out for me

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Gunther or Goonther

Wokeem

Horst :joy:

Bridge it

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Jasmijn :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Emmanuëlle
Fleur
Bart
Madelief
Amber
Lieke
Stijn

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At least that’s the Dutch way

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Jas-mi-jn

Em-man-nu-elle

Fl-er

Bart.

Ma-de-lie-f

Am-ber

Leye-ee-key

Sti-jn

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Lol, some are completely wrong :rofl:
Let me record all of them how they are pronounced in Dutch

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:rofl::white_heart:

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@Duckling and @Mysterious_Tea, this is how those names are pronounced in Dutch

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Dutch is weird :rofl:

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I was…very wrong. :no_mouth::white_heart:

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It makes sense tho how you pronounced it!

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Ah-lee-ah

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Yas mine (mine as in that’s mine and it’s harsh sounding)

Emanual

Fler (rhymes with duh)

Bart

Madaleef

Am ber

Lake

Steen

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Okay, I couldn’t pronounce the name Daryl properly when I met a Daryl during one of my travels :rofl: And it’s not even a that difficult name actually… But how do you guys pronounce it? :eyes:

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