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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