Pronunciation question

kayway85

How do you pronounce the name Carys?

Linsbins

Catherine Zeta-Jones' daughter with Michael Douglas has this name. It has stumped me for years, but I assume the top answer is correct?

CharmBombExplosion

I've always said it as Care-iss

ecwk

Care-iss. Which to me doesn't rhyme with Paris.

g8trkim

I've always heard it like Paris. I really like the name but DH isn't feeling it.

shinyspade

Carys is Welsh, the correct pronunciation is Ka-riss. I live in Scotland and used to work with a girl called Carys who uses this pronunciation.

sorarose

I knew a Welsh Carys (we all pronounced as Paris), and she never corrected us. However, the cat way is probably correct...Americans are going to pronounce it like Paris.

penelope4612

I'm a little confused.  I pronounce it Ka-Riss, which rhymes with Paris.  Care-iss to me has an -air sound.

shinyspade

penelope4612 said:

I'm a little confused.  I pronounce it Ka-Riss, which rhymes with Paris.  Care-iss to me has an -air sound.

Yep, same Ka-Riss rhymes with Paris and care-iss sounds... Weird!

kayway85

penelope4612 said:

I'm a little confused.  I pronounce it Ka-Riss, which rhymes with Paris.  Care-iss to me has an -air sound.

I see what you're saying. It's more like pear-iss than Paris.

ttcours2015

I'm completely confused by the confusion. Haha. Care-is, pear-is, Paris. All sound the same to me. I know a Carys and she pronounces it like "care-is" which to me rhymes with Paris. LoL

CaboBride2015

ttcours2015 said:

I'm completely confused by the confusion. Haha. Care-is, pear-is, Paris. All sound the same to me. I know a Carys and she pronounces it like "care-is" which to me rhymes with Paris. LoL

Same here.

groovylocks

The first or perhaps the second. I really like this name.

groovylocks

The confusion about Paris is to those of us who speak French as a first or early second language. When I first heard the capital of France, it was pronounced sort of like "Pah-rhee" if you can write french phonetically in English. I mean i realize that Paris is pronounced "pare-iss" and since the miserable spawn of the whole "Paris Hilton" industry, I've started actually seeing the word and hearing this pronunciation in my head. But honestly, my knee jerk thought when I see Paris is the french pronunciation first, english second since the French pronunciation was my first exposure to it.

ecwk

I think the confusion is more down to accent. I had a conversation about this with my students the other day. I pronounce Paris with a short 'ah' sound but they pronounced it with an 'air' sound. So to me and people with similar accent par and pair are two different sounds.

lauren_m

With my NYC accent, these options don't make sense.

Gingermom15

I'm from Ohio, one of the places with what is considered a "neutral" accent. You know, where they find the people who record their voices for machines and whatnot because everybody in the U.S understands them. I would pronounce Carys as Care-iss, which, as I say it, also rhymes with Paris which I say as "Pair-iss". The pronunciation of this name will likely vary so greatly by region. Go with the one common in your area

KellyAnn911

Ca-riss (like cat) Pa-ris (like Pat). That's how my NJ accent says it. I also have the same issue with Erin (which is not pronounced the same as Aaron) and Carrie (which is not the same as Kerry)