How many of you are there?

[Mr. Peanuts]

You can't properly pronounce it tho.. I can give you an english pronounciation but it isn't the proper one

Pronounciation is technically not language specific, is it not?

[Jeenyuss]

There are 0 people in the U.S. with the first name Connor.

# There are 47,995 people in the U.S. with the last name O'neill.
# Statistically the 716th most popular last name. (tied with 54 other last names)




this is bullshit?
how the fuck can there be no Connor? i even tried Conor!

I then tried my fathers name Liam and it got 0 too ... wtf

given the large number of Irish Americans i find it hard to believe that these common irish names don't appear in the whole of the USA

And it's O'Neill not O'neill stupid fucking thing autochanges it ... I HATE YOU http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/search/

my middle name is liamB)

[Galleleo]

Pronounciation is technically not language specific, is it not?

Donno about that, but English doesn't know the ij. There is not one english word I can possibly think of that has the correct dutch pronounciation for the lettercombination ij. Closest pronounciation possible in english for my name is ice with a T infront.

[genocidal]

Thijs: You can use phonetic spellings and we will understand. We don't just read English words.

[Depre]

# There are 662,931 people in the U.S. with the first name Gregory.
# Statistically the 70th most popular first name.
# 99.77 percent of people with the first name Gregory are male.

who the hell would name their girl Greg

[DoTheFandango]

Thijs: You can use phonetic spellings and we will understand. We don't just read English words.

This is the thing, there is no English phonetic for it. It's really crazy, languages with different bases. We can fudge French, Spanish, and Italian, because they contain Latinate roots and their phonetics sound like English, the same with some German. Dutch is much different and our vocal sensors are not used to their pronounciations, thus writing it down will do it no justice.

[Jerome Scuggs]

going on what gall said, i come out saying "thighs-j"

[Facetious]

I'm still naming my son Thijs. I'll call him Thidgets. Whatever.

[DoTheFandango]

Thuh-jiss
Thee-jees
Thuh-jeez

[Troll King]

I'm not sure how you'd pronounce Gal's name correctly, but we can all be pretty sure that it's not thix.

[Galleleo]

Geno, as I was trying to explain, the ij letter combination does not exist in english, thus I can't give you a phonetic for it. English simply does not know it.

Like I said, the english way of pronouncing my name is like Ice (as in icecream) only with a T infront, so you would get Tice. The H is silent, you can also name your kid Tijs and it has the same result, but it's less common and way less cool.

Here:

Click here!!

[genocidal]

T-ice-sh is what I come up with when I hear it here. I think it's fairly easy to understand and use phonetics for.

[Galleleo]

You hear it as t-ice-sh.. and I can't really state it more clearly then that is the english way of you saying it. That if the only phonetic you can give it, but it's not the correct one. There just is no english phonetic for the combination ij.

You say ice, the dutch word for ice is ijs. It does resemble each other, but its not the correct dutch pronounciation, and its the closed you can get in english.. it is what I have been trying to explain.

[Jerome Scuggs]

I'm still naming my son Thijs. I'll call him Thidgets. Whatever.

ahahahaha

[Facetious]

Yeah but our ears aren't trained to hear it either. I don't really understand how shit like that works. Is this somehow related to how some asian people can't say L's? Can they not hear the difference between r's and l's or just not make the L sound?

To me it sounds like Thieshe, but with a really minimal emphasis on the h's.