#27

ye but i like his singy songs

#28

Hom May, didn’t know this until about a year ago though and it feels wrong saying it like that!

#29

Yeah, hommy is how he says it.

I guess it’s probably ‘wrong’, as in I’m assuming it’s literally the French word Homme but it’s got changed by English speakers over time. See also
Wagner not being pronounced with a V sound at the start
Doherty having no ‘Dock’ starting
Pittsburgh not pronounced like Edinburgh despite being named by a Scotsman

#30

yeah this one is annoying so stop doing it you english fucks.

if Homm-y is just americans fucking up the french then i’m happy to keep saying it Hom.

#31

Looks like it might be a Norwegian name, but I’ve got no idea. maybe @whiterussian might have a better idea than me?

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#32

Ha, was half expecting you to tell me it wasn’t exactly a ck sound but something a bit more subtle

#33

hot take: I don’t like him or his music.

#34

oh wait now i’m wondering if you mean it the other way around? cos it should just be a H sound, nothing more.

#35

also the second G in Gallagher is supposed to be silent.

#36

None of those names look Nordic to me mate

#37

So is Doe erty right? I thought Irish people gave it a sound there?

#38

it’s pronounced literally the way it’s spelled. Doherty. Daw-her-tee.

it’s funny how english people usually complain about irish names NOT being spelled phonetically and then when they’re confronted with one that is they make up their own various pronunciations of it. i’m guessing they stem from phonetic, mispronunciations of Docherty and Dougherty that have carried over even to the least complicated, most phonetic spelling somehow.

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#39

Ah okay, interesting. Basically I hear both and as one wasn’t phonetic I just presumed that would be the Irish one. Cheers.

#40

Yeah it’s an easy assumption to make which is probably why it’s so widespread. i don’t know if there are regions of ireland that pronounce it dockerty but i’ve never heard it said that way here at least.

#41

Whereabouts are you from? I have a Dublin colleague and two from out west but one has lighter accent than the other (I.e. one says Theo like English people do). So I have been able to realise three distinct Irish accents, although obviously never noticed it until one of them pointed it out. I’ll have to ask them how they say it.

#42

From the north west, not far from Derry, but have mostly lived in Belfast since uni.

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#43

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Josh_Homme_says_his_name.ogg

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#44

to further confuse @1101010, Doc is a common nickname for someone with the surname Doherty

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#45

i forgot about this part

#46

Wait… Having listened to a pronunciation video I reckon both Anglicised versions are wrong since without the dock sound you tend not to have the “haw” in there at all so it’s more dough-erty which is too soft?