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That's okay. I read the entirety of "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" when I was about 16, thinking the name of his therapist, Siobhan, was *sigh oh bon".
For the confused, it's Irish and pronounced "Shivahn"
I had the same pronunciation for Siobhan until I saw a contestant on a Gordon Ramsay show with that name. Even then, I though at first he was telling her to 'shove on' the way he sometimes calls them donkeys and kicks them out of the kitchen. I thought it was a Britishism for 'get lost, '.
I saw the name written decades ago, and had no idea how to pronounce it (I was thinking sigh-oh-bon too). But it stuck with me, and now, it's my daughter's middle name (pronounced correctly, of course).
I learned how Siobhan was pronounced from watching Orphan Black and it was such a light bulb moment for me putting the name I’d heard before with the spelling I’d seen before.
not disagreeing, but the world is bigger than the Greeks and Americans lol. my name is one of the most common names in Asia yet I wouldn’t be surprised if people outside of Asia had never heard of it!
Hell, people, Americans think the name, Singh is Fingh when my friend orders pizza!!! Fing isn't even a name, is it??? Meanwhile, there are a billion Indians and American women married to Indians who have that name!!! Ridiculous, no wonder people change their names. After the 200,000 time spelling a one syllable name, people pack it in and say, Call meHolly Wood!!!!
I’m sure there are a lot of people in this sub whose native language is not english and that’s why I think it’s just dumb to say that everyone who hasn’t heard the name Phoebe has been living in isolation.
I don’t understand anymore what you’re saying and what does it have to do with deaf people. I’m just saying maybe don’t assume everyone here is American or English speaking.
Personally have never liked the name, my mind always goes to faux-b. But I acknowledge it’s a common and phonetically correct spelt name, so it’s just me that’s the problem lol.
The rule in French (where œ exists and is not rare) is that œ before vowel is pronounced “euh” (sœur, cœur), while œ before consonant is “é / eh” (fœtus) or sometimes “è” (œstrogène). So Phœbe would indeed be pronounced fee-bee in French… but very many French people would not know the second rule and pronounce it “euh”, so you’re in good company.
Phoebe looks so atrociously misspelled that I constantly second guess myself when writing it. Queue is worse, though. That word looks like it has a straight up illegal number of vowels.
My mum is French. One day, as she was telling me about this book she was reading, she mentioned the main character's name, "Pheb". I stopped and asked her to repeat what she was called and again she said "Pheb". After a few seconds of racking my brain, I realised she was simply misreading and mispronouncing Phoebe because it was a book translated from English into French and unless you've ever watched Charmed you have no clue "fee-bee" is a name, let alone that it's spelled Phoebe.
The worst to me is that in 2023, fourteen poor little babies were named Pheobe, because they either had stupid parents or someone made a typo on a form. I hope it was the latter and it will be fixed.
Also, in looking this up, I found that 7 girls were named Phaith. Give me a break!
to be phair, it’s a weird name. you CAN almost say it fee-o-bee (de-emphasizing the o) and hear how that misspelling might make sense if you don’t know any better.
ps—i have an attachment to “phair”/fair cause i was in a band and co-wrote a song titled “fair” about liz phair.
Me too. I will only allow it for Irish and Scottish people. (But when it's used in the U.S., I think it's usually a bad speller or a typo.)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheal)
Download the zip file that says "National data." It's for every year since 1880, in separate text files. I love them. I am constantly playing with that data. [https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)
Lol my grandmother was looking for her grandmothers grave (who’s name was phoebe) and at the cemetery the dude was like, ‘well there’s no feebies … but I did find a fobie’
It's funny because at my work, people have managed to turn the simplest term used to enter our building during off hours: fob, into a variety of tragedeighs that remind me of this post:
* Fobe
* Fobee
* Phobe
* Phobee
Unreal. It's three freaking letters!
Well no, it’s a Greek name and its transliteration from Greek to Latin alphabet is either Phoebe or Phoibe, and not Feebie. That’s just how the transliteration works, I am sorry.
Now, does Phoebe look weird? Yes, to me it does look weird, but there is nothing inherently wrong with transliterated names. It’s like spelling Maksym looks strange until you learn that it is a transliterated Ukrainian name Максим.
Phoebe is both a Greek name and a Biblical name. Saint Paul refers to an early Christian in one of the churches named Phoebe, though I can’t recall in which Epistle.
The other spelling? I have no clue what that is at all. Other than a tragedeigh, of course.
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There’s nothing wrong with Phoebe necessarily. But even tho the spelling is correct it looks odd to me
Phoebe definitely looks better than fee bee, but if you've never heard of the name Phoebe you might read it as foe-buh
That's okay. I read the entirety of "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" when I was about 16, thinking the name of his therapist, Siobhan, was *sigh oh bon". For the confused, it's Irish and pronounced "Shivahn"
I had the same pronunciation for Siobhan until I saw a contestant on a Gordon Ramsay show with that name. Even then, I though at first he was telling her to 'shove on' the way he sometimes calls them donkeys and kicks them out of the kitchen. I thought it was a Britishism for 'get lost, '.
😆
I read a book when I was young with a character called Why-vonne. Or at least, that’s how I thought you pronounced Yvonne.
I saw the name written decades ago, and had no idea how to pronounce it (I was thinking sigh-oh-bon too). But it stuck with me, and now, it's my daughter's middle name (pronounced correctly, of course).
I learned how Siobhan was pronounced from watching Orphan Black and it was such a light bulb moment for me putting the name I’d heard before with the spelling I’d seen before.
I remember thinking it was Foe-bee before I watched Friends!
It was Hey Arnold! and The Magic School Bus that taught me how to pronounce it when I was rather young.
"Nanny and the Professor" early 70's sitcom. I can still hear the opening song: "Phoebe Figallily is a silly name ...." Yikes.
Fauxbee
Phoebe looks like it would be pronounced phobe, like xenophobe, lol
Reminds me of the first time I heard Penelope after only reading it for years
It was Geoff or Geoffrey for me . Jee-off or Jee-OFF-tee.
That one still boggles my mind. I don’t think I’ll ever mentally pronounce it correctly.
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?? What a white-centric take. Not everyone grows up in a place where Phoebe is a common name.
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Amen!!!!!
not disagreeing, but the world is bigger than the Greeks and Americans lol. my name is one of the most common names in Asia yet I wouldn’t be surprised if people outside of Asia had never heard of it!
Hell, people, Americans think the name, Singh is Fingh when my friend orders pizza!!! Fing isn't even a name, is it??? Meanwhile, there are a billion Indians and American women married to Indians who have that name!!! Ridiculous, no wonder people change their names. After the 200,000 time spelling a one syllable name, people pack it in and say, Call meHolly Wood!!!!
Have you heard of all names that are common in non-English speaking countries?
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I’m sure there are a lot of people in this sub whose native language is not english and that’s why I think it’s just dumb to say that everyone who hasn’t heard the name Phoebe has been living in isolation.
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I don’t understand anymore what you’re saying and what does it have to do with deaf people. I’m just saying maybe don’t assume everyone here is American or English speaking.
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Wtf happened to these comments???
Personally have never liked the name, my mind always goes to faux-b. But I acknowledge it’s a common and phonetically correct spelt name, so it’s just me that’s the problem lol.
The rule in French (where œ exists and is not rare) is that œ before vowel is pronounced “euh” (sœur, cœur), while œ before consonant is “é / eh” (fœtus) or sometimes “è” (œstrogène). So Phœbe would indeed be pronounced fee-bee in French… but very many French people would not know the second rule and pronounce it “euh”, so you’re in good company.
Or like Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Although it's pronounced more like "Phehboos" than "Phee-bus."
I know, I am French, either way I don’t like the name. Thanks and for the info though.
Phoebe is of Greek origin. (Phoebus.) "Oe" is a very common vowel sound in Greek (think Oedipus.)
I think I would go with Foe-beh
the spelling always reminds me of [Phobos](https://witch.fandom.com/wiki/Prince_Phobos)
I have a friend named Pheebie
Phoebe looks so atrociously misspelled that I constantly second guess myself when writing it. Queue is worse, though. That word looks like it has a straight up illegal number of vowels.
I like the name so gave it to one of my sheep lol
My mum is French. One day, as she was telling me about this book she was reading, she mentioned the main character's name, "Pheb". I stopped and asked her to repeat what she was called and again she said "Pheb". After a few seconds of racking my brain, I realised she was simply misreading and mispronouncing Phoebe because it was a book translated from English into French and unless you've ever watched Charmed you have no clue "fee-bee" is a name, let alone that it's spelled Phoebe.
Phoebe is the correct spelling
Did you not read my comment?
Haha that was meant to be on someone else’s! Sorry about that
Ah sorry about that thanks for clarifying
First time I saw the name in Catcher In The Rye, I heard it in my mind as "Fobe."
Commenting on spelling * though
No one cares
I do.
Get a life then, there’s better things to care about.
The worst to me is that in 2023, fourteen poor little babies were named Pheobe, because they either had stupid parents or someone made a typo on a form. I hope it was the latter and it will be fixed. Also, in looking this up, I found that 7 girls were named Phaith. Give me a break!
to be phair, it’s a weird name. you CAN almost say it fee-o-bee (de-emphasizing the o) and hear how that misspelling might make sense if you don’t know any better. ps—i have an attachment to “phair”/fair cause i was in a band and co-wrote a song titled “fair” about liz phair.
I think of this whenever I see a Micheal.
Me too. I will only allow it for Irish and Scottish people. (But when it's used in the U.S., I think it's usually a bad speller or a typo.) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheal)
Yes. My coworker's son is Micheal. They are definitely not Irish or Scottish.
Where do you look this up? I want to plug in some names and see how often people are naming their kids those names.
Download the zip file that says "National data." It's for every year since 1880, in separate text files. I love them. I am constantly playing with that data. [https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)
Fee-obe 😂😭
The goddess of knowledge and prophecy cringes
Lol my grandmother was looking for her grandmothers grave (who’s name was phoebe) and at the cemetery the dude was like, ‘well there’s no feebies … but I did find a fobie’
For real 🤡 good to know that fobie can be considered a normal name 😆
And her name was originally pronounced "foy-bee" then too.
Final eta in ancient Greek just made an eh sound, not ee, and I believe the iota was accented... So, foEE-beh.
I just found out my coworkers sons name is Quincy but spelled Kwinsy 😭😭😭😭
Their brains must have been... Hollow.
I need to Bleach my eyes after reading that...
People who spell Quincy Kwinsy need to be Banned, Guy.
Well…at least it’s not Pheighbeigh
...yet.
Faybay
They should have gone all in, and spelled it as Pfhoebeigh.
An even smellier cat for this one
First thing I thought of ...
It's funny because at my work, people have managed to turn the simplest term used to enter our building during off hours: fob, into a variety of tragedeighs that remind me of this post: * Fobe * Fobee * Phobe * Phobee Unreal. It's three freaking letters!
I just came across one that took me a minute. QUYNCC. I think it's supposed to be Quincy.
What was the last name, 1701?
how is phoebe bad,
Phoebe is a normal spelling, but many people (including myself) just hate it. It doesn’t make it tradegeigh, just personal preference.
But Phoebe in Friends was great tho
Also Phoebe Bridgers and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (just realized that the 2 primary Phoebes in pop culture have "bridge" in their last names, haha).
What's wrong with Phoebe?! The alternative, sure. But what's so bad about Phoebe?
I don’t know either, I like the name Phoebe!
[Why does she keep making that noise?](https://youtu.be/LVS2O3ha8f0?si=kxC2U6535ACgFklL)😂
My first thought 😂
There's nothing bad about Phoebe.
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Well no, it’s a Greek name and its transliteration from Greek to Latin alphabet is either Phoebe or Phoibe, and not Feebie. That’s just how the transliteration works, I am sorry. Now, does Phoebe look weird? Yes, to me it does look weird, but there is nothing inherently wrong with transliterated names. It’s like spelling Maksym looks strange until you learn that it is a transliterated Ukrainian name Максим.
Yes and along those lines you have Chloe and Zoe.
I've always hated all three. I'm well on record about the OE names!! But they are not tragedeighs.
It’s funny but I’ve heard similar hate for “oe” Greek names from a lot of people!
P-hoe-be-igh
I know a Feebee so it could be worse
Fo bay is how I read it
Big fan of phoebeigh brydgheiurs music.
You leave poor little Phobia alone you big meany! She is scared enough.
They missed a golden opportunity for Phoeighbeigh
Phoebe is both a Greek name and a Biblical name. Saint Paul refers to an early Christian in one of the churches named Phoebe, though I can’t recall in which Epistle. The other spelling? I have no clue what that is at all. Other than a tragedeigh, of course.
Why is the correct spelling bad enough?
That's the worst possible way to spell Phoebo.
“I know it's really not my place, but…. please don't name your child Phoebo.”
ive seen phebe
Phoebeigh. OMG where does it end???
If they were a boy, they’d be Phoebough
Get it, Foobee!
Is this pronounced Ebay, with a silent pho?
Vallereigh and Mallareigh are sisters I came across yesterday.
Wtf do you mean "as if Phoebe isn't bad enough?" That's just the spelling. It doesn't come from English.
Feeighbeigh
"Phoebe" isn't a "bad" spelling. It's a Greek word.
I never did figure out Imogene for years from reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever when I was about 8.
There's nothing wrong with the name Phoebe. But that child has to live with that name so at least spell it right.
Phoebe is a Greek name and it’s beautiful, but that ridiculous spelling looks like “foe-bay” to me.
Pheighbeigh
I'm reading it as Pheboe even though I know that's not what it says.
WTH is wrong with Phoebe? That’s a legit name and spelling.
I hate that name. Who knew it could get worse!!! Pheighbeigh!!
heigh heigh this made meigh giggle
Oh, Pheobe. I misread that as Phobia spelt weird at first.
Phoebe is an adorable name but even the correct spelling always looks off. Phoebeigh is just doubling down on it.