10 Girl Names YOU Pronounce INCORRECTLY

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with Lucy today I’ve got a

pronunciation video for you I’m going to

teach you how to pronounce ten commonly

mispronounced girls names so I’ve got

ten of the most popular names in the UK

that are commonly mispronounced so if

you have any of these names yourself

you’re going to have to say it a million

times on the phone spell it out for

people correct people sometimes you

might get so bored of it that you don’t

even bother correcting people anymore so

let me know if you have this name and

how you deal with people mispronouncing

it all the time now some of these are

mispronounced because there are various

different ways of pronouncing them so I

will go through those and if I miss any

out comment down below so this video is

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let’s get started with the lesson the

first one is this one so the official

pronunciation of this name is Siobhan

but obviously you can name your baby

whatever you want to name it so if you

want to call it Siobhan that is

absolutely fine it’s a lovely name as

well I think I actually had more

Siobhan’s in my ear at school than I did

Siobhan’s yeah you can call it what you

want but commonly mispronounced so be

careful the next one is a gorgeous name

I absolutely love this name it is this

one and the S is silent and this causes

some confusion but it should be Isla

Isla I think I just love any name with

like the I sound in it I think it’s so

beautiful

Isla now the next one is actually a

combination of two names and this is

mispronounced purely because people

miss read it so we’ve got Christin and

Kirsten Christin Kirsten but yes a

number of times I’ve emailed someone

called Kristin and I’ve greeted them as

Kirsten and it gets a bit embarrassing

so yeah be extra extra careful over

Christin and Kirsten number four there

is no right or wrong with this one you

can say Eva or you can say Ava the best

thing to do is just ask number five much

like Eva or over is Kyra or Kyra with

this particular spelling it could be

either or it could be either Kyra or

Kyra but with other spellings it can be

a little bit more clear the next one

another one where you really should just

ask is it Mia or is it Maya who knows

ask the poor person the next one is

confusing purely because it has three

vowels in a row oh my god it should be

pronounced Gaia Gaia but I’m pretty sure

there will be someone in the world that

calls it gaya actually on that line of

thought one of my schoolteachers was

actually called gay which comes from the

meaning happy but yeah a bit of a shame

actually it’s not a name that I hear so

frequently nowadays next one anything

containing ly spelt like this so it

could be ly on its own or it could be

Ashley people who have this in their

name frequently complain of being called

ley or Ashley etc next we have this one

now obviously it depends on the parent

this one should actually be kaya like in

Maya but some people might mispronounce

it by saying

kaya and the last one is this one again

it depends on the parent it could be

Layla or it could be Lila I personally

prefer Lila because it’s got that I

found in it which i think is so

beautiful right guys that’s it for

today’s video

I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you

learnt something those were 10 popular

girls names that are commonly

mispronounced comment below if you have

a name that is often said or spelt

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