St Patrick's Day has arrived and celebrations of Irish culture are taking place the world over. From New York to New Cumnock, ...

My brother sat across from me at a family dinner, sounding out the first syllable of my name. "It's a hard 'I'," I reminded him, "not an 'A,' a hard 'I' like 'mirror,' as in, Mir-ella." He laughed ...

Irish names like Siobhan and Cillian have unique pronunciations, often confusing for non-Irish speakers. The Irish language uses the Latin alphabet differently, with letters representing various ...

Having heard the nearby towns of Senoia and Woolsey widely mispronounced most of his life, your compiler believes a ...

It is time to embrace our naming tradition with confidence. Then comes the tricky part: pronunciation. Many Chinese names are butchered in English, often sounding like a bad karaoke rendition. While ...