Shelagh--how do you pronounce your name

In Australia, women are known as "sheilas" so its very popular
there!......regards Alison B

"Shillelagh" wrote in message
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"hesira" wrote in message
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Shelagh,

I always imagined it was pronounced She-LAY (soft "e"). Do you accent
the first or second syllable?

Hesira

Hmmmmmmmm, I had to think about that. Perhaps a little stronger on the
first....

Shelagh

It wasn't until I mailed the threads to you earlier this year that I knew
the pronunciation. The post office worker, who likes to chat up his
customers, commented that he seldom saw Sheila spelled that way.

--
Jan in MN

Tee hee...... don't worry Maggs, a lot of people haven't seen that
spelling - it's the Celtic or Irish way of spelling Sheila. So, it's just
She-la. I get She-lag a lot, and as a matter of fact my best friend
calls me She-lag just for fun. I've heard She-laf, She-log, She-luf, and
sometimes just a puzzled face. When I see that, I just pronounce it for
the
person, and you should see the look of relief on their face! ;)

Shelagh

In article , "Shillelagh"
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"Tracey" wrote in message
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Okay, give - what did you name her? And the pronounciation too,
please.....
;)

Shelagh

LOL

Siobhan. Okay, so it's not *totally* obscure but she sure don't have
to worry about people not knowing which Siobhan people are talking
about. :P

And pronounciation is Shu-VON as in shut and don.

Tracey

Heh - I knew the pronunciation of that name - only because of the singer who
shaved her head..... that's when I heard it.

Shelagh

Well Yes and in Ian Rankin's, books, the Scottish detective Rebus, his
sidekick is also named Siobhan. I asked Michelle's husband Paul how to
pronounce that name. Paul was born in Scotland, helps when you can get
the correct pronunciation from the horses mouth.

Els

--
Ja for Jazz and cobra loose the rrrrrrrr

"klh" wrote in message
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Shillelagh wrote:

I probably would have said "Sea Leech" too.(snicker). And I love that you
wrote "Scots"..... of course you know how many people say "Scotch".

scotch is also a game for some children

When I was a kid I played "hopscotch", which is written on the sidewalk in
chalk.

Shelagh

Aha Elsje ,, don`t we know itr when the WHOLE workld Pronounces Van
Goch th Wromg way , and Me and Haifa the worng way [ps for you Haifa
the HA is pronounced like Go in Goch]....Prononciations are very much
connected to geography and culture ,. For Hebrew speakers many
Biblical Originated names sound very strange in the mouthes of Non
Hebrew speakers,,,
Any way i asked around Scotish origined people and they told me to say
SheLagh ,,,,prouncing the GH like the Dutch pronounch Go in Van goch
or the Spaninsh pronounce the J in JUAN ,,,,, a nice Guttoral Kh ...of
CH prononunced this way it makes into the Hebrew word YOURS
...[female singular ]
mirjam

Katherine wrote:
You dropped opera???? Sorry to hear that, Threnody.

I dropped it because I never wanted it in the first place. My voice
changed earlier (girls' voices change, too) so I began with a coach when
I was 12. Most girls begin when they are 14 or 15. Classical was
touted as the first method from which all other genres would follow. By
the time I had achieved what I needed in classical, I was 15 and ready
for my true love -- blues and jazz. But guess what? To be 15 and have
an accomplished, classical repertoire meant that no other coach would
take you on unless you were going to continue with classical. That
continued until I got to college, and after fulfilling my scholarship
duties during my freshman year (number of non-required performances,
being lent to other colleges and civic groups to pad their casts and
bring attention to my college's music dept., etc.) I demanded of the
dean of music that I be allowed to change genres. He disagreed, so I
left that school and returned to my hometown of Mason, OH, intending to
enroll at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

Well, guess where nearly every coach and college professor and even the
dean of music graduated from? Yup. CCM. I was essentially blackballed
unless I studied classical. At that point, I decided a life on the
stage wasn't for me because I'd seen this really nasty, never-publicized
thing behind the curtain and I just felt like a prostitute. In
retrospect what I should have done was used that very moment of anger to
walk into the smokiest, darkest piano bar in town and ask for a
microphone and a B-flat minor, please.

What did you use your
linguistics major for? My SIL is finishing a master's in linguistics now,
and is focusing on Sheshatshiu Innu-aimun, which is the language used by
Innu in Labrador.

I worked with artificial intelligence that could teach itself to
communicate with people who had severe autism and other disorders in
which they develop their own languages and methods of communication. I
was also interested in how people who suffered disabilities within in
the autism spectrum related to animals and could sometimes talk with or
to an animal but would turn aphasic, for example, when confronted with a
human. I'd done horse and dog therapy for years as a hobby, and I began
to see real possibilities within that discipline.

And then I graduated and needed money and fell back on writing because
really it's what I do best. Long and winding road. But I got a
marvelous husband out of it all and a career that allows me to put
everything on hold for a few years while I raise the children. Once the
youngest (who is due on the 19th!) is in kindergarten, I can begin
picking up contracts full-time again. For now I can get the occasional
one for people in a bind.

--
Threnody

Threnody wrote:
Katherine wrote:
You dropped opera???? Sorry to hear that, Threnody.

I dropped it because I never wanted it in the first place. My voice
changed earlier (girls' voices change, too) so I began with a coach
when I was 12. Most girls begin when they are 14 or 15. Classical
was touted as the first method from which all other genres would
follow. By the time I had achieved what I needed in classical, I was
15 and ready for my true love -- blues and jazz. But guess what? To
be 15 and have an accomplished, classical repertoire meant that no
other coach would take you on unless you were going to continue with
classical. That continued until I got to college, and after
fulfilling my scholarship duties during my freshman year (number of
non-required performances, being lent to other colleges and civic
groups to pad their casts and bring attention to my college's music
dept., etc.) I demanded of the dean of music that I be allowed to
change genres. He disagreed, so I left that school and returned to
my hometown of Mason, OH, intending to enroll at the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music.
Well, guess where nearly every coach and college professor and even
the dean of music graduated from? Yup. CCM. I was essentially
blackballed unless I studied classical. At that point, I decided a
life on the stage wasn't for me because I'd seen this really nasty,
never-publicized thing behind the curtain and I just felt like a
prostitute. In retrospect what I should have done was used that very
moment of anger to walk into the smokiest, darkest piano bar in town
and ask for a microphone and a B-flat minor, please.

What did you use your
linguistics major for? My SIL is finishing a master's in linguistics
now, and is focusing on Sheshatshiu Innu-aimun, which is the
language used by Innu in Labrador.

I worked with artificial intelligence that could teach itself to
communicate with people who had severe autism and other disorders in
which they develop their own languages and methods of communication. I was
also interested in how people who suffered disabilities within
in the autism spectrum related to animals and could sometimes talk
with or to an animal but would turn aphasic, for example, when
confronted with a human. I'd done horse and dog therapy for years as
a hobby, and I began to see real possibilities within that discipline.

And then I graduated and needed money and fell back on writing because
really it's what I do best. Long and winding road. But I got a
marvelous husband out of it all and a career that allows me to put
everything on hold for a few years while I raise the children. Once
the youngest (who is due on the 19th!) is in kindergarten, I can begin
picking up contracts full-time again. For now I can get the
occasional one for people in a bind.

Thank you for that explanation. I think that those professors and coaches
need their heads examined. I like the idea of working to help autistic
people communicate.

Higs,
Katherine

"Shillelagh" wrote in message
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"klh" wrote in message
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Shillelagh wrote:

I probably would have said "Sea Leech" too.(snicker). And I love that
you
wrote "Scots"..... of course you know how many people say "Scotch".

scotch is also a game for some children

When I was a kid I played "hopscotch", which is written on the sidewalk in
chalk.

Scotch is a game or whisky)

"Threnody" wrote in message
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I dropped it because I never wanted it in the first place. My voice
changed earlier (girls' voices change, too) so I began with a coach when
I was 12. Most girls begin when they are 14 or 15.

(lots of wonderful stuff snipped)

I'm sorry you were thwarted by unbending people as you went through your
music education. My DH and I love Chicago type blues - lots of harp and
gravelly voices.

Glad to hear you were able to find another area that interested you and will
work for you after your babe is off to school. Best of luck to you in your
career!!

Shelagh

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" wrote in message
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Any way i asked around Scotish origined people and they told me to say
SheLagh ,,,,prouncing the GH like the Dutch pronounch Go in Van goch
or the Spaninsh pronounce the J in JUAN ,,,,, a nice Guttoral Kh ...of
CH prononunced this way it makes into the Hebrew word YOURS
..[female singular ]
mirjam

Aaaah Mirjam, maybe those Scottish people still have their lovely accents
and can pronounce my name that way. Here, we just call me She La..... the
gutteral part just wouldn't work for a Canadian accent. (smile)

Shelagh