I think I need to save this on my phone for quick reference! I think the problem is the Latin script to be honest. That's probably why so many people who grow up speaking English have a hard time with pronounciation. In so many langueges the way letters are pronounced is different. Some less than others, but the point remains. Best example "A" in English is phonetically "Eii" .While in many other langueges "A" is closer to "Ah".
I guess the point it looks like the standard latin alphabet shared by many western nations. In these countries, the latin alphabet tends to have a fairly common sound-set - despite differences in language. It would probably confuse people less if the characters looked a little different - but as it looks so similar, people don't make the connection that it might not be the same.
@@vanessaoyole7790 the languague is called Gaeilge or Irish, not Gaelic. I think what they mean is that theres doffernt letters not ised in Irish, we wouldnt have K, Q, W etc. In the language, those noises are acjeoved by putting different letters together.
@@jackdavenport5011yeah she is . She is such a gem , she just doesn't date people and in an interview she was telling that she hasn't gone to date and don't know how to date , she was 23 then. I really respect and love people like her who wait for their soulmates❤.
And that just cos they're reat great grandpas from there so they think think that they know everything about ireland cos they think that they are irish
It's not ridiculous, it's just not English, it's Irish. My name is pronounced "Ee-fah" (Aoife), because when you put 'aoi' together in certain words, it makes an 'e' sound. For example, the word: 'Aoibheann' is pronounced "Ee-van", and aoibheann would be used in the sentence "is aoibheann liom" which means, "I really like." ❤👍
I used to work with an Aoife and it's still a ridiculous way of spelling. It's overcomplicated for no reason. English has also its fair share of spelling nonsense though.
I'm Polish living on Ireland a 14 years ... I remember when I met Irish colleagues .. and the schedule of hours at work .. I heard their names but on the schedule I couldn't tell who I was working with the next day hahah 🙂👍 .. and now I really like Irish names! The Irish language is beautiful and it's a wonderful country and people! Ireland Love You and life here!🍀🍀❤️🇵🇱🦅👍👊💪🇮🇪
@@eoinoconnor5783A large part of it is seeing letters of Latin alphabet being pronounced in ways one is unaccustomed to. Look at a German word and a Spanish word, and you can bet that if the both have an M in it, it will sound like an M. If you see a word in some other language that has an M in it, but suddenly the M sounds like T, it's going to be weird for you.
@@miker.9138Irish used to have its own alphabet but we don’t any more there’s also meant to be fádas over the letters which give them their pronunciation but they didn’t add them in for some reason
So; Irish traditionally doesn't have the letters v-z, so 'v' is often replaced with mh or bh, so to pronounce them in English, first replace an mh or bh with a v. Niamh - Niav Siobhan - Siovan Caoimhe - Caoive I mean, it's not perfect, but helps you make a better guess.
One of my friends (who happens to be names Siobhan) father is names Ciatlan or something? I have two questions. One, what is the correct spelling? And 2, how do you pronounce it?
@@cheetahman515I'm irish and honestly I've no idea. Maybe ask her? Or could you give a phonetic spelling of how you say it? Because the closest I can think of is Caitlin ( pronounced kate-lyn) and that's a woman's name, irish for Catherine
@@cheetahman515 oh great, most people in ireland pronounce it as key-rawn but it can also be pronounced as key-rin. All depends where in the country you are and your specific accent
Its beautiful, and I wish people would open their eyes and see that this is an indigenous European language and should be preserved, as all indigenous languages should be. YES, Europe has an indigenous culture too, and its about time we claim it without the nonsense of the Church, nationalism, or modern ideology as a whole.
The transition from feudalism during industrial revolutions across the European subcontinent allowed the rich to eradicate the cultural diversity of those lands. The Irish managed to mostly fight it, as have many. In fact, if there was still such cultural variety a lot of people would probably be more comfortable with diversity even if the people don't look like them.
@@concord5859 That isn't true. So you'd rather live in a feudal state as opposed to an industrial or post industrial society? I'm sorry, I much prefer the modern world with modern medicine and technology that allows people to live longer lives and have free time to explore things like history, culture, and bettering lives than just a daily struggle to survive. People are responsible for maintaining their culture, not everyone else. Further before unifying governments and the Church that you disparage, all of Europe was a bunch of warring tribes. But, whatever.
The alphabet is not that different to the English. It's missing a few letters, for example, the letter v. Instead you would use the letters b and h together to get the sound of a v, or ic together to get a k sound. It's an ancient language with a sprinkling of old nordic in there.
The names aren’t hard to pronounce, but the sound you want doesn’t match the letters you used. Ha ha ha the mbugrcp’s on us. Oh, that’s pronounced like ‘joke’ but I’m drunk.
I don't consider it mockery. Why would curiosity be mockery? I find it very interesting and beautiful. Feeling a little sensitive today (3 months ago)?
@@eoinoconnor5783 Thank you so much for that amazing list! I am practicing them in Irish right now! 😂 My family is partly Irish and Scottish so I love this stuff...
Too bad most people don’t actually know true Irish culture and are not interested in it. Most young people in Ireland couldn’t give a shite about our language or history before our war for independence a lot of them don’t even know about our Celtic culture and going further back
@@Haerinx87 Irish accents and dialects vary regionally all over the country. In some places they pronounce things differently depending on which neighbourhood you live in, even varying by the street. We are very individual, and we celebrate it.
I think Irish names are beautiful. We have a family I met where the dad is from Ireland and their children all have traditional Irish names. It’s lovely to get to say them.
Yeah ironically all the Gaelic languages are WAY more phonetically accurate in how they're written than English is. You have to learn each English word individually to know if you're pronouncing it right whereas with Irish here you just have to read it and you'll know how to say it (assuming you know the pronunciation rules).
@@asterismos5451 The problem is not knowing the pronunciation rules. I would've tried to shove in what I thought was US/English pronunciation rules to those words. Doesn't help that, in my mother tongue, the pronunciation rules for Latin symbols are the same as what they are in the US, England, or Spain.
@@oscarcacnio8418Yeah it's mostly just that some of the consonants become v sounds when there's an h after them (mh, bh, for instance) and the vowels are just different from most Latin sounds, and change a lot when combined with other vowels.
I pronounce alot of these differently, like the last one is pronounced “keeva” to the girl i know, and “oisin” is “osheen”!”saoirse” is “seersha”!”Niamh” is “neeve”
same like my name is saoirse and i pronounce it sairsha i think it just differs depending on what part ur from like im from cork so i have a rly strong accent
I’m from Ireland and This frustrates me so much when people do this to Saoirse or like call Cillian Murphy British or Pearce Bronsnan English… like do your most basic research people. If you’re gonna host a celeb or someone in the media the most basic thing you can do is learn their name (and how to say it properly) and where they come from. It feels like it’s so easy to take a dig at Irish actors could you imagine an Asian or African actor going on a show to talk about their work and the host taking the piss out of there names or not even bothering to know where they come from? They wouldn’t dare. Immediately cancelled. But Irish people? Yah sure we’re fair game. 😕
These are often the same people who'll tell you the Irish haven't experienced oppression. Apart from centuries of occupation, mass starvation, being transported to Australia in chains, land clearances, being hanged for speaking the Gaeltacht, wearing green or talking back. You're expected to be "be a good sport" about it. Don't mention the "Peace walls" still necessary in Belfast, the arguments you can get into about Derry's name or the PSNI just being the RUC with newer Landrovers & fewer British agents. 26+6 still don't = 1.
I know 4 different Saoirses, each of whom pronounce it slightly differently. There's one who pronounces it like "SEER-shə", another who says "SARE-shə", one who says "SORE-shə" and a fourth who just calls herself "SƏR-shə" (ə represents a vowel sound called schwa, its just that very low-effort vowel that most vowels in unstressed syllables default to, sorta halfway between "eh" and "uh" where you just… open your mouth and make a noise.)
Used to work with a girl called Siobhan. I used to call her Sio-ban rather than "shivaughn". She knew that I knew how it was pronounced and just laughed when I got it "wrong" . I think I was the only one that got away with it as she corrected everyone else (so did I when i heard them say it incorrectly).
He wouldn't joke about the names of other Counties ,this then would be regarded as Racism. Irish names have A History well before America was Discovered.Pleease do not Disrepect other Nation's Heritage .She should have told him to Get Lost .....
Pointing out that languages different from your own are harder to pronounce is disrespect? Wow. Every foreign exchange student I've ever met that struggled with names and laughed at how strange they sounded owes me a big apology then /s
@@kat8295they didn’t say that pointing out differences between languages is wrong, there are obvious differences between gaeilge and English and there is nothing wrong with pointing these differences out, however calling a spelling of a word in a foreign language ridiculous just because you don’t understand it is most certainly disrespectful
Won't be around for long unfortunately. Biggest demographic change per capita of an country in history without the need for a physical war according to an ex Garda for integration.
Gaelic amd cymraeg are supposed to be as harder than the one in Swaziland. I'm 2 years into welsh and looking at Irish at the same time. I'm glad with my choice 😂
No.. pretty much the entirety of Mexico, Central and South America were conquered by the Spanish originally. You speak Spanish in that part of the world because the conquistadors and Spanish priests practiced the systemic r*pe and cultural annihilation of the indigenous people. Now the English and French also did these horrible things but the Spanish were hands down the most successful. Que tengas un excelente día!!
When the English tried to take our whole ethnic Irish culture from us we still spoke our native language which is Gaelic. Irish language is taught in every school in Ireland. Just shows how little that guy knows about Ireland
You may have missed in history class The Scots were setting up castles in Ulster too. If you're going to place blame, make it accurate. The English and Scots were equally at it.
If you listen to how the names are pronounced they’re actually astonishingly beautiful. The spelling doesn’t match English phonetics but I always loved many of them.
There are accents (short angular lines) called fadas missing from over some of the vowels in the names. These change the pronunciation. She should know
She is not running a class in Irish, she does know, she is just pronouncing the names that are in front of her, not that deep. it's an American chat show for goodness sake, relax
@@jacquelinegosnell5340 yep, fully agree. I use them on my phone but I have yet to figure out how to add them on a standard laptop keyboard. It does kinda annoy me because the word is only correct when the fada is in place but, whatever, I'm usually not trying to teach anyone Irish, I'm just commenting from my kitchen table in Ireland, so it's not that deep lol
It's a regional variant. When I took my first Irish class the teacher would give three or four regional pronunciations for every word and it confused the heck out of me 😆
I got to go to Ireland 20+ years ago - when I was early 30s. It was a business trip with golf clubs. All expenses covered. The Irish people I met in those ten days were fantastic. Polite and considerate. They liked asking questions about America. And the women are gorgeous. 💘 🍻🥃🖖🇮🇪
I’m Australian but I know how to pronounce all of these names either based on a few people I went to school with and mostly from a pronunciation page of on of my favourite books that is set in Ireland
@@cdemo1186 except they would! I'm Irish, have lived here my entire life, and most Irish people understand this sentiment...it stems from being forced to learn it all through school whether you enjoyed learning languages or not 🤦🏻♀️🤣
This host should be ashamed of himself for saying other people's name are ridiculous because they're from another country.. Also cursing his guest to go to hell.. This awful host thinks he is funny .
This poor woman is eternally cursed with pronouncing Irish names for late night chat show hosts
Being Irish is not a curse!
Yes and she's pronouncing a few of them wrong as well ..
It’s not English that’s why it’s not a curse.
@@thealienfilesnot exactly. If you were Irish you'd know that there are things called _regional dialects_ and _accents_
@@incognito1783 your right there...
My name is Niamh
My sisters name is Caoimhe and my cousin name is Oisin
And your brother is bollix.
@@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk how long did it take ya to come up with that one buddy?
@@Daran-bi7qhcalm down spaz
I have a cousin called Oisin and another called Caoimhe!
Never heard anyone named Oisin until 20+ years ago when they started making the language fashionable.
01) Caoimhe (KEE-vah)
02) Pádraig (PAW-drig)
03) Dearbhla (Derv-la)
04) Maeve (MAY-ve)
05) Grainne (GRAWN-yah)
06) Eoghan (Owen)
07) Aoife (eee-FAH)
08) Siobhan (SHIV-on)
09) Tadhg (Tige)
10) Síle (SHEE-lah)
11) Niamh (Neev)
12) Seamus (Shay-muss)
13) Máirín (Maw-reen)
14) Saoirse (Sur-sha)
15) Bairbre (Barbara)
16) Máirtín (MAR-steen)
Thank you 😍
I am Irish and my name is Dearbhla soo many people get my name wrong I have been called debra debla and many more nobody can pronounce it
I think I need to save this on my phone for quick reference!
I think the problem is the Latin script to be honest. That's probably why so many people who grow up speaking English have a hard time with pronounciation. In so many langueges the way letters are pronounced is different. Some less than others, but the point remains. Best example "A" in English is phonetically "Eii" .While in many other langueges "A" is closer to "Ah".
1) Was more like Kweevah when Saoirse Ronan said it.
@@heliotropezzz333Both are correct
People don’t understand they’re like that because Irish has a different alphabet.
I know it winds me up how people act as though they’re a British language
Is it not Gaelic?
I guess the point it looks like the standard latin alphabet shared by many western nations. In these countries, the latin alphabet tends to have a fairly common sound-set - despite differences in language. It would probably confuse people less if the characters looked a little different - but as it looks so similar, people don't make the connection that it might not be the same.
@@vanessaoyole7790where did y’all come up with that
@@vanessaoyole7790 the languague is called Gaeilge or Irish, not Gaelic. I think what they mean is that theres doffernt letters not ised in Irish, we wouldnt have K, Q, W etc. In the language, those noises are acjeoved by putting different letters together.
She is stunningly beautiful and so patient.
Every time she is asked the same thing and she answers patiently and politely.
Her name is Saoirse Ronan@kennethdennis40
@kennethdennis40I think it’s Saoirse Ronan
@@jackdavenport5011yeah she is . She is such a gem , she just doesn't date people and in an interview she was telling that she hasn't gone to date and don't know how to date , she was 23 then. I really respect and love people like her who wait for their soulmates❤.
She is well paid for that
@@TheSojoboUchiwa hater😒
Well, they’re in the Gaelic language. Many names in other languages can be difficult if you don’t speak the language.
Gaeilge*
@@ruanmurray I stand corrected. Gaeilge it is!
@@simonllewellyn1825 ah no worries
Gaeilge is actually Irish for Gaelic so everyone is right.
@@tconnolly9820 fair enough
Move over, A-A-Ron. The Irish have entered the chat!
I already told Oshakhennesy he is waiting😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Aaron's still pronounced "Ay-Ay-Rhon" right?
🤣
@@austinh1028 yep 😂
😂 why did I know how to read A-aron
Lmao 😭🤣🤣🤣
I love Irish names, very pleasant to the ears.
I agree...
But hell on the eyes!
Living in Ireland made me learn these names. I love Irish names.
Me too
Same!
same but some names I forget how to pronounce lol
Same
Yeah but so many people hear your name but can't spell it. I've heard people spell my name (Tadhg) like taighde before and it gets really annoying
Why can't Americans get around the fact that our names are in a different language, and one that predates the actually United States itself
And that just cos they're reat great grandpas from there so they think think that they know everything about ireland cos they think that they are irish
you take this far too serious
@@skilledcrayon92I don't think so
@JamieLamb-ft6io no I know so because the yanks come in their droves to our island and talk shite about how they're irish. Yer not yer american
Because they're thick.
I LOVE the Irish accent. I could listen to her talk for hours. Not to mention how cute Irish people are. She's adorable.
A lot more Irish accents than that.
It's not ridiculous, it's just not English, it's Irish. My name is pronounced "Ee-fah" (Aoife), because when you put 'aoi' together in certain words, it makes an 'e' sound. For example, the word: 'Aoibheann' is pronounced "Ee-van", and aoibheann would be used in the sentence "is aoibheann liom" which means, "I really like." ❤👍
Aiofe's a gorgeous name- if I ever had a daughter that would be her name (and I'm in no way Irish!)!
I used to work with an Aoife and it's still a ridiculous way of spelling. It's overcomplicated for no reason. English has also its fair share of spelling nonsense though.
@@georgezee5173 No language has any ridiculous ways.
so aoife is a shortening of aoibheann like real is a shortening of really ?
@@e7193 no, the commenter was just comparing the "ao" sound in both words
I'm Polish living on Ireland a 14 years ... I remember when I met Irish colleagues .. and the schedule of hours at work .. I heard their names but on the schedule I couldn't tell who I was working with the next day hahah 🙂👍 .. and now I really like Irish names! The Irish language is beautiful and it's a wonderful country and people! Ireland Love You and life here!🍀🍀❤️🇵🇱🦅👍👊💪🇮🇪
Aye man and we irish love u too bro, my brothers half polish and my soon to be fiance is Polish as well and I'm doing my best to pick up some polish❤
@@moonmarcher 🙂😅👍👍😎🔥💪🍀🌞💪❤️
Welcome friend 😊
@@patricksteele 🍀👍😀💪
The Irish equivalent of Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz? 😂😂
Daily reminder to learn Irish, its spelling is actually incredibly regular once you get used to how it works
@drazlet I speak fluent Irish. It is a lovely language but difficult for adults to learn.
My mother named me Sionainn.
I once had a very sweet old gentleman sing me a song about the River Shannon.
It’s almost like they’re names from a whole different language 😮
English speaking talkshow hosts seem to find that so baffling.
@@eoinoconnor5783A large part of it is seeing letters of Latin alphabet being pronounced in ways one is unaccustomed to. Look at a German word and a Spanish word, and you can bet that if the both have an M in it, it will sound like an M. If you see a word in some other language that has an M in it, but suddenly the M sounds like T, it's going to be weird for you.
Well because... They are?! Irish is an own language, closely related to Gaelic.
@@miker.9138Irish used to have its own alphabet but we don’t any more there’s also meant to be fádas over the letters which give them their pronunciation but they didn’t add them in for some reason
So; Irish traditionally doesn't have the letters v-z, so 'v' is often replaced with mh or bh, so to pronounce them in English, first replace an mh or bh with a v.
Niamh - Niav
Siobhan - Siovan
Caoimhe - Caoive
I mean, it's not perfect, but helps you make a better guess.
One of my friends (who happens to be names Siobhan) father is names Ciatlan or something? I have two questions. One, what is the correct spelling? And 2, how do you pronounce it?
@@cheetahman515I'm irish and honestly I've no idea. Maybe ask her? Or could you give a phonetic spelling of how you say it? Because the closest I can think of is Caitlin ( pronounced kate-lyn) and that's a woman's name, irish for Catherine
@@plaidshirtanomaly just looked it up and it’s Ciaran. I think it is pronounced chyaran with a rolled r
@@cheetahman515 oh great, most people in ireland pronounce it as key-rawn but it can also be pronounced as key-rin. All depends where in the country you are and your specific accent
Ona maíth 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👌
They're all beautiful names. Unique and usual, that's why they're beautiful.
Please. Can't pronounce them here in the US of A, and the spelling of them is ugly as well.
You mean unusual.
@@lenpey Oh yes, sorry!
Not too unusual in Ireland though!
Its beautiful, and I wish people would open their eyes and see that this is an indigenous European language and should be preserved, as all indigenous languages should be.
YES, Europe has an indigenous culture too, and its about time we claim it without the nonsense of the Church, nationalism, or modern ideology as a whole.
The transition from feudalism during industrial revolutions across the European subcontinent allowed the rich to eradicate the cultural diversity of those lands. The Irish managed to mostly fight it, as have many. In fact, if there was still such cultural variety a lot of people would probably be more comfortable with diversity even if the people don't look like them.
it's too alte for irelandistan
LOL @ "without nationalism."
The Celtic languages of Europe are no more indigenous than the Germanic and Romantic languages. All three are Indo-European
@@concord5859 That isn't true. So you'd rather live in a feudal state as opposed to an industrial or post industrial society? I'm sorry, I much prefer the modern world with modern medicine and technology that allows people to live longer lives and have free time to explore things like history, culture, and bettering lives than just a daily struggle to survive. People are responsible for maintaining their culture, not everyone else. Further before unifying governments and the Church that you disparage, all of Europe was a bunch of warring tribes. But, whatever.
Honestly, irish names are beautiful
She’s a great ad for Ireland!
where are you from
Not really, she's a poshie that pretends to be from the flats
Who's she?
Is she an actress?
Probably one of the best actresses in the world right now
Me being Irish: all right
Samsies I'm Doireann
im not Irish but I lived there for 5 years and i got all right too 😅
Same up Monaghan!
Same, coming from Carrick.
Same
I interviewed her when Lady Bird came out and she’s a sweetheart.
Did you ask better questions?
I so appreciate how she keeps correcting him until he gets it right 😂 Like no mf you said you wanted to learn
Its almost like its a completely different language with a completely different alphabet
Wonder why 😂
The alphabet is not that different to the English. It's missing a few letters, for example, the letter v. Instead you would use the letters b and h together to get the sound of a v, or ic together to get a k sound. It's an ancient language with a sprinkling of old nordic in there.
@@Bopzibeel yeah ik but the letters make different sounds than they do in tye English alphabet.
@@Bopzibeel Just a regular c gets you k. "ic" or "ec" would be specifically a palatal version because of the slender broad distinction.
So is Russian, but when we translate it to English the letters make the right sounds.
She was so young here but yet so charismatic and relaxed. Amazing woman.
She's all of the three still.
@@Ambar42right? I was worried she died lol 😭
I love Irish names. Beautiful!!!
Don't be silly! 🤣
🍀Great actress! Beautiful names and language! 🥰💕🍀
Im from Ireland and i love seeing ppl struggle saying these names
The names aren’t hard to pronounce, but the sound you want doesn’t match the letters you used. Ha ha ha the mbugrcp’s on us. Oh, that’s pronounced like ‘joke’ but I’m drunk.
@@CorePathway ok
Bless Ms. Ronan for her great good patience and her tolerance of such tasteless mockery.
Soirse Ronan
@@ZodiacMy With respect, her name is Saoirse Ronan.
Cheers
It's light hearted fun..not tasteless..but hey ho it's all about opinions..
How you write "tasteless mockery" in Irish? :P
I don't consider it mockery. Why would curiosity be mockery? I find it very interesting and beautiful. Feeling a little sensitive today (3 months ago)?
Ireland got such a beautiful genes ❤
Oh wow they are all BEAUTIFUL names, more please! 💝
Ok, here you go!
Aoife: [Ee-fa]
Liam: [Lee-am]
Eoin/ Eoghan: [Owen]
Clíodhna: [Clee-ohna]
Daragh/ Darragh/ Dáire: [Da-ra]
Brigid/ Brighid: [Bri-jid] or [breed]
Cathal: [Kah-hull]
Loughlin/ Lochlann: [Lock-linn]
Caoilfhionn: [Key-linn]
Rúairí: [Roar-ee]
Fionn: [Fee-yun]
Bláthnaid: [Blaw-nud]
Cian: [Key-an]
Síle: [Shee-la]
Sadhbh: [Sive]
Colm: [Kol-um]
Ciara: [Keer-ah]
Ciarán: [Keer-awn]
Eimear: [Ee-mer]
Brónagh: [Bro-na]
Aisling: [Ash-ling]
Cáit: [Kawt]
Róisín: [Ro-sheen]
Cillian: [Kill-ian]
Pádraic: [Porruck]
(Pádraig: [Paw-drig])
Éamon: [Ay-mun]
Éadaoin: [Ay-deen]
Mícheal: [Mee-hall]
Deirdre: [Deer-dra]
Phew, that was exhausting 😂. But hopefully this will help whenever you meet Irish people or Irish names. Good luck! 😊
@@eoinoconnor5783 Thank you so much for that amazing list! I am practicing them in Irish right now! 😂 My family is partly Irish and Scottish so I love this stuff...
I love em ! They sound so lovely ❤
Can someone remind him of words like 'enough', 'infamous' and hundreds of other english words🤣?
Knowledge!!!!
SHE'S ADORABLE.
He’s so much better when he just sticks to being funny.
Irish culture is so rich, intense and beautiful! ❤
Thanks mate! Glad you like our Culture! ❤
But cuisine is a yawn.
@@lenpey fair enough, our drinks aren't though
Too bad most people don’t actually know true Irish culture and are not interested in it. Most young people in Ireland couldn’t give a shite about our language or history before our war for independence a lot of them don’t even know about our Celtic culture and going further back
Caoimhe is more commonly pronounced as ‘Kee-va’ in the north of Ireland.
Everything is pronounced differently in Northern Ireland, it's almost like they speak a different language
@@Haerinx87 Irish accents and dialects vary regionally all over the country. In some places they pronounce things differently depending on which neighbourhood you live in, even varying by the street. We are very individual, and we celebrate it.
@missopowers
I'm sorry, but Northern Ireland accents, especially Belfast is just atrocious to listen to.
@@Haerinx87don’t listen then 👍🏼
@@JonathonCarolan
If you offered me 1 million euro to live in Belfast or 50 euro to live in Galway, I would happily live in Galway.
I think Irish names are beautiful. We have a family I met where the dad is from Ireland and their children all have traditional Irish names. It’s lovely to get to say them.
So much patience. Thats all I’ll say.
I mean... before I learned English well, I thought JOHN is supposed to sound like JOH-HEN 😂
Yeah ironically all the Gaelic languages are WAY more phonetically accurate in how they're written than English is. You have to learn each English word individually to know if you're pronouncing it right whereas with Irish here you just have to read it and you'll know how to say it (assuming you know the pronunciation rules).
@@asterismos5451 The problem is not knowing the pronunciation rules. I would've tried to shove in what I thought was US/English pronunciation rules to those words.
Doesn't help that, in my mother tongue, the pronunciation rules for Latin symbols are the same as what they are in the US, England, or Spain.
@@oscarcacnio8418Yeah it's mostly just that some of the consonants become v sounds when there's an h after them (mh, bh, for instance) and the vowels are just different from most Latin sounds, and change a lot when combined with other vowels.
I thought it was like Yon, with a long o (Yo-on). (1st language is German)
@@yoriex3577 yes! Yo hen or Joh hen definitely not Jong (first lingo Chinese)
I pronounce alot of these differently, like the last one is pronounced “keeva” to the girl i know, and “oisin” is “osheen”!”saoirse” is “seersha”!”Niamh” is “neeve”
same like my name is saoirse and i pronounce it sairsha i think it just differs depending on what part ur from like im from cork so i have a rly strong accent
Yea, I’ve never understood why Saoirse pronounces her name that way. To me it’s the way you say it, ‘Seer-sha’. Oisín is ‘Ush-een’.
Etc.
Why do they spell them this way in English then,?
@@spideyocdit’s not english
I've heard that Queeva is more the Republic Of way of pronouncing it, whereas Keeva is more Northern Irish.
It all makes a lot more sense when you know mh and bh make a V sound in irish
Beautiful names. Do they have a different alphabet???😂😂😂
Irish contains only 18 letters ( No jkqvwxyz) so certain letters grouped together will substitute a sound.
Imagine him trying to say Aoibheann
😂
"Sharon"
ee-van? Yvonne?
@@kikialeaki1850im really late sorry but its ay-veen btw, ay like in day
One of our twins is named Siobhan and the other Saoirse, birthday is 29 February. They were 6 last week. Or 24, depending on how you count.
Happy belated birthday to the little ones! :D
lol leap year babies!
It's honestly a beautiful language. Love Colbert, but his commentary was a bit rude, even if just going for laughs.
I love the sound of Oisin! Beautiful!
It's traditionally spelled Oisín and means fawn or small deer as gaeilge 😊💚
As a irish person i was like its obvious 😂
They ain’t ridiculous
I’m from Ireland and This frustrates me so much when people do this to Saoirse or like call Cillian Murphy British or Pearce Bronsnan English… like do your most basic research people. If you’re gonna host a celeb or someone in the media the most basic thing you can do is learn their name (and how to say it properly) and where they come from. It feels like it’s so easy to take a dig at Irish actors could you imagine an Asian or African actor going on a show to talk about their work and the host taking the piss out of there names or not even bothering to know where they come from? They wouldn’t dare. Immediately cancelled. But Irish people? Yah sure we’re fair game. 😕
These are often the same people who'll tell you the Irish haven't experienced oppression. Apart from centuries of occupation, mass starvation, being transported to Australia in chains, land clearances, being hanged for speaking the Gaeltacht, wearing green or talking back.
You're expected to be "be a good sport" about it. Don't mention the "Peace walls" still necessary in Belfast, the arguments you can get into about Derry's name or the PSNI just being the RUC with newer Landrovers & fewer British agents.
26+6 still don't = 1.
Part of the joke is that her name is so hard to pronounce for anyone who interviews her and Colbert gets it right, so at least he's trying.
or presidents are irish
I know the majority of them as I have been working for more than 9 years with Irish colleagues.
Super cute 😍 Love the accent.
I'm irish and knew all😂
I wish you werent, fucking state of ya
Great ambassador for Ireland.
How?
I love Irish people 🇮🇪.
A lot of greetings from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿.
Thank you 😊
Thanks, Greetings, love and prayers right back to you in Azerbaijan! ❤🙏🎉
I love Irish names..they have a special meaning💕
I fucking love irish.
I know 4 different Saoirses, each of whom pronounce it slightly differently. There's one who pronounces it like "SEER-shə", another who says "SARE-shə", one who says "SORE-shə" and a fourth who just calls herself "SƏR-shə" (ə represents a vowel sound called schwa, its just that very low-effort vowel that most vowels in unstressed syllables default to, sorta halfway between "eh" and "uh" where you just… open your mouth and make a noise.)
Yay schwa!
There's a 5th way where the second S is silent and it becomes something like Sor-ca
A Kennedy relative died several years ago was named this. No wonder she didn't make it in the US.......
I feel for this woman, having to play the Professional Irishperson role whenever she is interviewed. Her patience and tolerance are commendable.
Used to work with a girl called Siobhan. I used to call her Sio-ban rather than "shivaughn". She knew that I knew how it was pronounced and just laughed when I got it "wrong" . I think I was the only one that got away with it as she corrected everyone else (so did I when i heard them say it incorrectly).
Next movie they’ll ask her this again…and again and again and again. She’s such a good sport
He wouldn't joke about the names of other Counties ,this then would be regarded as Racism.
Irish names have A History well before America was Discovered.Pleease do not Disrepect other Nation's Heritage .She should have told him to Get Lost .....
Pointing out that languages different from your own are harder to pronounce is disrespect? Wow. Every foreign exchange student I've ever met that struggled with names and laughed at how strange they sounded owes me a big apology then /s
@@kat8295they didn’t say that pointing out differences between languages is wrong, there are obvious differences between gaeilge and English and there is nothing wrong with pointing these differences out, however calling a spelling of a word in a foreign language ridiculous just because you don’t understand it is most certainly disrespectful
Beautiful culture
If You Only Knew
Won't be around for long unfortunately. Biggest demographic change per capita of an country in history without the need for a physical war according to an ex Garda for integration.
@@Fatfrogsrock Are you talking about immigrants or Brits?
Brits?
Do you refer to Pakistanis as Pakis?
Ireland will be conquered again with all the immigration! They will end up like London! Multiculturalism doesn’t work!
Gaelic amd cymraeg are supposed to be as harder than the one in Swaziland. I'm 2 years into welsh and looking at Irish at the same time. I'm glad with my choice 😂
Our language is called Gaeilge
@@abigailisvirtual3358If you spoke our language, you would know that it is also called "Gaelic".
Love Irish names. Theyre beautiful!
Beautiful language
it's the same thing as Spanish, two l's are pronounced 'y'. we were conquered by the English too but we still have our own language
Any other language has the same things.
German: w pronounced like v
English: ph sounds like f
No.. pretty much the entirety of Mexico, Central and South America were conquered by the Spanish originally. You speak Spanish in that part of the world because the conquistadors and Spanish priests practiced the systemic r*pe and cultural annihilation of the indigenous people. Now the English and French also did these horrible things but the Spanish were hands down the most successful. Que tengas un excelente día!!
When the English tried to take our whole ethnic Irish culture from us we still spoke our native language which is Gaelic. Irish language is taught in every school in Ireland.
Just shows how little that guy knows about Ireland
You may have missed in history class The Scots were setting up castles in Ulster too. If you're going to place blame, make it accurate. The English and Scots were equally at it.
@@bradavon It was the UK overall, Scotland is part of the UK
Love it.
I'm a Protestant Ulster Scot living in Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Five hundred years and counting!
@@bradavonThe one who gets the most blame are the one who caused the most damage.
Curb your "patriotism".
Irish girls have such beauty and their complexions are flawless their names are pretty too.
If you listen to how the names are pronounced they’re actually astonishingly beautiful. The spelling doesn’t match English phonetics but I always loved many of them.
Happy Hispanic heritage day
My daughters are Sadbh and Blàthnaid.
And how are they pronounced phonetically in American English?
Does Sadbh sound like "save"?
@@callmechia Sadhbh = Sive
Bláthnaid = Blaw-nud
There are accents (short angular lines) called fadas missing from over some of the vowels in the names. These change the pronunciation. She should know
Yeah and it let's you know if it's pronounced differenly though in the USA you have to learn the word if that makes sense
I mean yeah the names are meant to have fadas, but a lot of people don't include them in the name when they themselves use it
She is not running a class in Irish, she does know, she is just pronouncing the names that are in front of her, not that deep. it's an American chat show for goodness sake, relax
The fades are important I don't let them out but others do also its a pain in the neck to get on your laptops just my take on it as a Irish native
@@jacquelinegosnell5340 yep, fully agree. I use them on my phone but I have yet to figure out how to add them on a standard laptop keyboard. It does kinda annoy me because the word is only correct when the fada is in place but, whatever, I'm usually not trying to teach anyone Irish, I'm just commenting from my kitchen table in Ireland, so it's not that deep lol
Irish names are absolutely gorgeous
Caoimhe can also be pronounced Key-va with no w sound
Best pronunciation imo
But it would be wrong
@@ohnoitisnt666 no
the a makes the C broad, not slender. so, no.
It's a regional variant. When I took my first Irish class the teacher would give three or four regional pronunciations for every word and it confused the heck out of me 😆
She's from Carlow but has a Dublin accent.
She's from Howth I think
She I think so too
She was born in the Bronx
@michaelward1945 yes but she's Irish DNA and culturally wise
@@jasonwebb41 I know
There are 3 different Irish dialects and "Caoimhe" is pronounced "Kee-vah" in one of them
I’m Irish, and I’ve never encountered anyone that has it pronounced the way she did.
My friend pronounce it Keevee
Irish names are so pretty.
Didn't even realise these names were an issue for people.. they're just normal names in ireland😂
Ikr
It’s just we’re not as familiar with them. Sean, Sheila, Terence & Erin are in my fam. Lots of Patrick’s, Liam’s, Neil’s, Brian’s
I got to go to Ireland 20+ years ago - when I was early 30s. It was a business trip with golf clubs. All expenses covered. The Irish people I met in those ten days were fantastic. Polite and considerate. They liked asking questions about America. And the women are gorgeous. 💘 🍻🥃🖖🇮🇪
My son OISIN ❤
If a daughter Roisin ❤
It’s confusing but at the same time unique! I like it
My name is Caoimhe
Yea i also was like what when i was younger i did not know these names but caoimhe is a beutiful namw
😂🤣☘️☘️☘️❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪😘😘😘👍🏼🤪🤪
I’m Australian but I know how to pronounce all of these names either based on a few people I went to school with and mostly from a pronunciation page of on of my favourite books that is set in Ireland
This is reverse racism. Get a black lady up there and ask her how to pronounce Lateasha then the show would be cancelled.
Calling it ridiculous will cause uproar.
Lateasha is a made up name and is not any African name😂
@@mickricke3762 i had a classmate named Lateasha. She was a dime piece
Why black people always got ti come up when the conversation isn't about us Billy Bob bubba😅..not even in the chat.
The mh and bh are usually pronounced as V's.
Really not that complicated
And S is often Sh as in Oisín and Siobhàn
People who spell tadhg "tadgh"
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Teague
Irish names are so beautiful
Not ridiculous, Gaelic. Have a bit of respect for a culture thousands of years old as opposed to your american culture which is only relatively new.
it's just a bit of craic, no harm intended I'm sure ❤
@@seyara1 American don't get the CRAIC
I'm Irish and I hate the Irish language. lol
@@slickfandango7915 then you aren't really Irish.
No true son or daughter of Éire would every speak those words.
Thoughts and prayers are with you 🙏🏼
@@cdemo1186 except they would! I'm Irish, have lived here my entire life, and most Irish people understand this sentiment...it stems from being forced to learn it all through school whether you enjoyed learning languages or not 🤦🏻♀️🤣
This host should be ashamed of himself for saying other people's name are ridiculous because they're from another country.. Also cursing his guest to go to hell.. This awful host thinks he is funny .
Imagine saying this about African or Asian names.
Tadgh just looks like someone tried to write my name Tasha but made a typo 😅
She’s so beautiful! ❤️❤️❤️
She is so freaking stunning
Therapist: Lady George Russell isn't real
Me:
I love her so much!! 💜
These are so beautiful!!
Siobhan is a fire name tho 🔥