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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Carys posts make me think of the now-ubiquitous Caitlin and all its variations.

It's pronounced Kathleen in Ireland, but now all of a sudden there are tons of "Kate-lynns."[/quote]

It's pronounced Kate-lynn here, though.[/quote]

Only because someone saw the Irish name and mispronounced it. Kind of like if we saw Sean and pronounced it SEEN.[/quote]

The correct American pronunciation of Sean is Shawn. Which is why the name Sean is sometimes spelled Shawn in the US.

The correct American pronunciation of Caitlin is Katelynn. Which is why the name Caitlin is sometimes spelled Katelynn in the US.[/quote]

Um, you know that the Irish pronunciation of Sean is "Shawn," right?

The correct comparison is between Shawn and Kathleen, both phonetic spellings of the Irish Gaelic Sean and Caitlin. The Katelynn thing is more of a bastardization--it's a phonetic spelling of a mispronunciation. If that makes any sense, lol.[/quote]

Yes, it's like if people (mis)pronounced, say, the name "Quinoa" as Quinn-o-a, and then started naming children Kwinnoah. :)[/quote]

Would you still call it a "mispronunciation" after everybody had been doing it as the standard for 40+ years?[/quote]

No, but I also wouldn't give a lecture to someone who pointed out that Katelynn was a name based on a mispronunciation (because, hello,she's right), especially not one that seemed to imply that the Irish don't pronounce Sean the same way Americans do.[/quote]

It's also kind of funny that this is exactly the sort of thing DCUM would make fun of nonwhites and lower SES groups about, but if white middle/upper class people do it, it's  "the standard." [/quote]

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