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in reply to a message by Kristen
"How do you pronounce?" means "how does one correctly pronounce?". It doesn't mean "give me your first instinct on how to pronounce this even if you've never heard it".
You were wrong, and you needed to be corrected or the OP might have got the false impression that HAM-ish was an okay way to pronounce Hamish.
You were wrong, and you needed to be corrected or the OP might have got the false impression that HAM-ish was an okay way to pronounce Hamish.
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The one who opened the thread asked "how would you pronounce it" and not "what is the correct pronunciation of..." so there was no need to correct her at all. You can basically pronounce a name any way you want it pronounced and here in Germany we would say HAH-mish that doesn't make it a wrong pronunciation.
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The OP said that she had never been sure how to pronounce it, indicating that she was looking for the correct pronunciation. If she hadn't cared how it was correctly pronounced she would have just taken a stab at it and not worried.
And I disagree that you can pronounce a name any way you like. Language doesn't work that way.
And I disagree that you can pronounce a name any way you like. Language doesn't work that way.
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You can pronounce a name many ways. You can pronounce it the German way, the Italian way, the English way and all of those pronunciations would be correct. Thalia is pronounced tha-LYE-ah in Greek yet tah-LEE-ah and THA-lee-ah are the most common pronunciations in English. They aren't wrong, just different. If what you said was the case everybody in the US would pronounce Nicole the wrong way as it is actually nee-KOLL, not nih-COLE.
She just wanted to see how most people would pronounce it - by that she would have been able to figure out the correct pronunciation. Before you replied to this post you had already corrected another person so this really wasn't necessary. Hamish is pronounced HAH-mish in German and HAY-mish in English and there are other ways to say it so you can't say only HAY-mish is the correct pronunciation. You can only say that it's the most common one in English speaking countries. Otherwise the way you pronounce Jacqueline, Nicole, Rachel and Gretchen is wrong. They are all pronounced differently in French, Hebrew, German (where they come from) than in English.
She just wanted to see how most people would pronounce it - by that she would have been able to figure out the correct pronunciation. Before you replied to this post you had already corrected another person so this really wasn't necessary. Hamish is pronounced HAH-mish in German and HAY-mish in English and there are other ways to say it so you can't say only HAY-mish is the correct pronunciation. You can only say that it's the most common one in English speaking countries. Otherwise the way you pronounce Jacqueline, Nicole, Rachel and Gretchen is wrong. They are all pronounced differently in French, Hebrew, German (where they come from) than in English.
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