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After this post I googled the names plus the word pronunciation, and one of the first entries that popped up was a site with an audio clip of pronunciations.  Cool.  Aoife almost sounded like Effuck, with a soft ck sound at the end of the name, like a whispered "fuck" at the end.  I played it a couple of times to see if I was hearing it correctly.[/quote]

Oh dear.  the k sound at the end is clearly just the sound cutting out.  Look at the phonetic pronunciation:

"ee-fah"

I hope you aren't planning a trip to Ireland soon - I am not sure how well your going round the country whispering "fuck" would go down.

Come to think of it, you might do quite well there....[/quote]

Glad I was disabused of my misinterpretation by other posters.  Like I said, I wasn't sure what I was hearing, which is why I replayed it several times and posted the issue here.  Obviously, the spelling of these names is not a good indication of pronunciation.  (I happen to speak three languages, but Gaelic isn't one of them.)

But your assumptions about me are lovely.  Which of us is really the ugly American?  [/quote]

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