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[Opinions] Re: Mhairi
by Scotty
6/14/2020, 4:12 AM
in reply to a message by Canielle
I love the name Mhairi (but I’ve only ever heard it with the emphasis the other way - VAH-ree), it’s one of my best friends’ names though so completely unusable for me. If you’re in Scotland it’s absolutely usable but a lot of people even here will mispronounce it MAH-ree so be prepared for that (it’s a problem my friend has a lot).I’m not a fan of Siobhan, no problem with the pronunciation here everyone knows how to say it but I just don’t like it. It’s definitely not as pretty as Mhairi.
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- Canielle
6/15/2020, 1:41 PM
I live in city in Scotland and both Mhairi and Mairi are used here as separate names. I cannot answer for areas that speak Gaelic though. It tends to be mostly the western isles that speak Gaelic. Lowland Scots tended to speak Lallans rather than Gaelic. Like Gie it laldy or You’ll have a drouth on ya.

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- Anneza   +1
6/14/2020, 7:21 AM
Scotty, do you know if Mairi is used in Scotland as well as Mhairi? I know I read somewhere, long ago, that Mhairi is the vocative form and so a girl would be named Mairi and then if you called her, you'd say Mhairi. Does it work like that in practice? Or only if you're actually speaking Gaelic?
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- Scotty
6/14/2020, 10:00 AM
Yes, Mairi’s definitely used here too. Couldn’t tell you about the Gaelic unfortunately, I don’t live in an area where it’s spoken to a great extent so I didn’t actually know about that! Interesting! I guess it might work like that in the islands or somewhere Gaelic is spoken widely.
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