There’s this YouTube channel about aviation that I like. The guy’s name is Ruairidh MacVeigh. The last name is obvious, but his first name is apparently pronounced as ‘Rory’. I would not have gotten that spelling correct in a million years.
Edit: oh and another one that I do know to write and pronounce is Siobhan. That one does NOT sound like what you think it does. Definitely look it up if any readers are not familiar with Irish names.
Irish names are fun. There’s also a good amount of Irish people going for deed poll changing their name from the English spelling to the Irish one and vice versa. A friend of mine went from Noel to Nollaig.
I work with a lot of Irish people and I’ve just got used to the fact that “Smith” is spelled “Smyth” apparently the y is silent and the i is invisible.
I still don’t understand why Starbucks write your name on drinks. Literally everyone else in the world just calls out the order and you pick it up. It’s usually the next one unless you’ve ordered something ultra complicated anyway.
Combine that with the fact that they can’t have small medium and large and have to call everything by weird names and I refuse to go in. Same way with Subway, don’t want to have to decide what kind of tomato sauce filling I want in my sandwich, I just want an effing sandwich.
The joy of going to Starbucks with an Irish name like Caoimhe or Saoirse.
My name contains seven silent letters…
There’s this YouTube channel about aviation that I like. The guy’s name is Ruairidh MacVeigh. The last name is obvious, but his first name is apparently pronounced as ‘Rory’. I would not have gotten that spelling correct in a million years.
Edit: oh and another one that I do know to write and pronounce is Siobhan. That one does NOT sound like what you think it does. Definitely look it up if any readers are not familiar with Irish names.
Irish names are fun. There’s also a good amount of Irish people going for deed poll changing their name from the English spelling to the Irish one and vice versa. A friend of mine went from Noel to Nollaig.
I work with a lot of Irish people and I’ve just got used to the fact that “Smith” is spelled “Smyth” apparently the y is silent and the i is invisible.
Re: Edit Lol, a friend of mine has that name. It’s not an easy one if you’re not used to Irish names. ^^
I still don’t understand why Starbucks write your name on drinks. Literally everyone else in the world just calls out the order and you pick it up. It’s usually the next one unless you’ve ordered something ultra complicated anyway.
Combine that with the fact that they can’t have small medium and large and have to call everything by weird names and I refuse to go in. Same way with Subway, don’t want to have to decide what kind of tomato sauce filling I want in my sandwich, I just want an effing sandwich.