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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]
Gilles Vidal (born c. 1972), French automobile designer; Gilles Vigne (born 1950), French swimmer; Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Canadian poet, publisher, and singer-songwriter; Gilles Villemure (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player; Gilles Villeneuve (1950–1982), Canadian racing driver; Gilles Vincent (born 1958), French crime fiction author
Vitalii (Russian: Вита́лий, romanized: Vitaliy, Ukrainian: Віта́лій, romanized: Vitalii; Vitalij, pronounced [ʋiˈtɑlij], Latin: Vitalis) is a ...
Anglicisation of non-English-language names was common for immigrants, or even visitors, to English-speaking countries. An example is the German composer Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach", who was known as "John Bach" after emigrating to England.
Elizabeth Vidal (born 10 June 1960) is a French operatic coloratura soprano. Born in Nice to a Spanish father and a British mother, she was appointed teacher of singing at the Conservatory of Nice in 2009.
Many actors and other entertainers elect to add or include their mothers' maiden names in their adopted stage names.The book How to be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television advises aspiring performers to consider changing their names, noting that "if [your birth name] is difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember, it may not be the name you want ...