On 26/5/24 10:43, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> Indirectly related to this, don't assume that the _pronunciation_ of any
> particular name has anything to do with the way it's _written_, even if
> it's written in its "native" alphabet. The most commonly cited examples of
> this are
>
>     * Cholmondeley (pronounced as if written "Chumly")
>     * Tagliaferia (pronounced as if written "Tolliver" - and I encountered
>       one example where it was pronounced as if written "toe-fur")
>     * Featherstone-Haugh (pronounced as if written "Fanshaw" or "Farnshaw")
>
Some Irish (at least female) names seem to have a tendency towards this
from what I understand - frinstance:

- Siobhan (pronounced as if written "Shivonne")

- Niamh (pronounced as if written "Neve")

- Roisin (pronounced as if written "Rosheen")

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