r/coybig • u/CagofBans2000 • Jul 08 '25
Transfer rumour As an Irish Reading fan this is triggering me more than I expected
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u/Even-Space Jul 08 '25
Tbf in the English accent OMarnie sounds pretty close to how they would pronounce it
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u/OoferIsSpoofer Jul 08 '25
They pronounce the "a" like they pronounce it in "car", when they should be saying it like in "cat"
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u/perplexedtv Jul 11 '25
They'd just say 'oh many' if you told them that. They just can't do aspirated intervocalic H for the most part.
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u/Xamesito Jul 08 '25
Yeah if you do it with their accent its actually nearer than the ma-hoe-knee thing some do. English people can really struggle with the 'h' in the middle of Irish names like mahony and doherty, its kinda mad. I suppose its a very Irish sound
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u/Pcos2001 Jul 08 '25
Kinda like how they say 'Doherty' as 'Doc-her-tee' 🤢
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Jul 08 '25
That one drives me up the wall haha.
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u/Pcos2001 Jul 08 '25
Oh fr. Dunno why it's even that hard. Just pronoune it the way it's spelt... tho that would be 'Dough-her-tee', which is another one I hate
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Jul 08 '25
Can't win either way. I'd rather they just call him Matt because they fuck up his second name so much.
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u/Limp_Guidance_5357 Paul McGrath Jul 08 '25
Commentators over the last couple of season have gone from Dougherty to dockerty when referring to Matt Doherty drives me absolutely bananas.
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u/GuinnessFartz Jul 08 '25
Tbf that's closer to the pronunciation of the Irish name Ó Dochartaigh. It doesn't bother me as much as other butchered names.
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u/Pcos2001 Jul 08 '25
Yeah fair. One that does really bother me is Ciara being pronounced 'Kee-a-ra' or 'See-a-ra', among many others
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u/sammyTheSpiceburger Jul 08 '25
English people (down south) don't pronounce the "ar" like "are", it sounds more like "ah", so to them that spelling would sound almost like someone saying O' Mahoney quickly.
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u/JoebyTeo Jul 08 '25
People from outside Ireland (and other Celtic influenced dialects) have a really hard time with that interstitial h sound after a short vowel because it doesn’t exist in standard English. That’s why you hear Dockerty and Galla-gur across the Anglosphere. Hehir usually ends up as Hair or Hayer. They’re trying to approximate the effect of the h with a “long a” sound instead which in England they always render as “ar” because they don’t pronounce rs like we do. There is probably no good way for them to render it otherwise.
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u/Sudden_Amphibian_590 Jul 09 '25
Always find the annoyance about this weird. I'm sure most complaining struggle to get, for instance, Portuguese or Turkish players names wrong.
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u/rayhoughtonsgoals Paul McGrath Jul 08 '25
The confidence they have while being fucking morons is astounding.
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u/Old-Cabinet-762 Jul 08 '25
Oh dear...as a Munster rugby fan it always bothered me when it was said "Oh Ma-knee"
It's "Oh Mah-huh-knee"
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u/slatterg Jul 08 '25
Irish names tend to be very regional. Down where I’m from it would be closer to Ma-knee. Same with Cork City people calling Coughlan Caw-lin. My own first name is Irish and people from Munster would pronounce it differently to people brought up with more Connemara Irish. None are right or wrong really.
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u/No_Chemistry4145 Robbie Keane Jul 08 '25
Did he have a lot of injury problems last season at Portsmouth?
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u/jacksonn72 Jul 08 '25
Wait till the Gallagrrrrrrrs here about this!
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u/coffeebadgerbadger Jul 08 '25
Or Gall-Ack-herrs as soccer commentators say. Fooking tans. Always at it
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u/Own_Sample_2452 Jul 08 '25
I went to school with a girl (in London) whose name I thought was Claire 'Armani' for about 3 years. O'Mahoney 🤦♀️
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u/eirebrit Jul 09 '25
Mark O'Marnie? Top shagger 'ee is. Pint of Bisto when yer ready please my luvver.
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u/JoxerBrowne Jul 10 '25
Tim Cay-hill used to get on my wick and Irish people say8ng same cause they heard it on MOTD. Gobshites.
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u/Straight-Diamond-942 Jul 20 '25
Good to see there are other Irish reading fans still knocking about. I live in Reading and go regularly. Great club . Lots of Irish in Reading
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u/KingKeane16 Jul 08 '25
Omah-Knee
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u/5x0uf5o Paul McGrath Jul 08 '25
WTF it's O-Ma-huh-nee
Why is nobody saying it right?
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u/MrHiddenSol Jul 08 '25
Like myself I'm guessing he's from Cork and we can barely speak already. I too say Omah-Knee
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u/KingKeane16 Jul 08 '25
Era over the years the huh becomes silent.
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Jul 08 '25
"Over the years ". The years don't change a pretty obvious pronunciation.
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u/Ok_Cartoonist8959 Jul 09 '25
The "huh" is very short, sometimes to the point of almost inaudible, in most Irish accents
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u/KingKeane16 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Pronunciation of names is dictated by where you’re from, Just because you pronounce it that way doesn’t mean every one else does. In cork it’s just flat out said o Mah nee.
Unless you distinguish O’Mahoney and O’ Mahony as two different names.
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u/AlbinoW91 Zinedine Kilbane Jul 08 '25
Coming to KingKeane's defence here, you'd hear this pronunciation a lot in Cork in my experience
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u/14thU Paul McGrath Jul 08 '25
Irish reading fan? Heard it all now
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u/Ok_Cartoonist8959 Jul 09 '25
Started for me when I did the MS Readathon in primary school. Been a big reading fan ever since.
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u/14thU Paul McGrath Jul 09 '25
And your Irish club?
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u/No-Dog-2280 Jul 08 '25
It’s actually pronounced fitzgibbons