#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?

#47

If I was adressing him directly, ‘Hommy’.
If I’m talking about him behind his back, ‘Hom’ all the way.
I like to think he knows. And that he knows that I know that he knows.
Which makes it all the more infuriating for him.

In other news I mercilessly correct people who cannot pronounce Sufjan as ‘Soofyawn’ but blatantly just say ‘Suffjunn’ when I’m on my own. And Justin Vernon can fuck right off if he thinks I’m saying ‘Bon Eve Air’ in public.

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#48

^this

#49

In my head I heard Kanye going “that’s Josh Homme, not Josh homie” like in Devil In A New Dress.

#50

I can’t believe a quick search on google could have told me such slightly misleading information about the origins of the name Homme, but there you go.

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