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Originally Posted by Brianna
(feeling small and scared)
How are you supposed to say Caitlin?
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I'm not being scary am I?
Don't worry - it's the after effect of the stroke if you think I am.
Caitlin was originally pronounced as I wrote it above - Coshleen. Real Gaelic speakers (of whom this girl's father was one) will pronounce it with a wetter sound in the middle, like they know consonants the rest of us haven't mastered yet, but Coshleen is close enough.
I know I'm in the minority now, and it's accepted as Kate-Lynn. It just doesn't sit right is all. Like finding out the American town of Cairo is pronounced Kay-Ro - it takes a twist of the brain to read it with that pronounciation in mind.