Americans Try To Pronounce Traditional Irish Names
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English speaker: "there's no other way to pronounce this"
Also English speaker: thought, tough, though
Paola R facts 😂 but still
uh uh uh there is more Rough , cough , dough , fought , trough WHY NONE OF THEM RHYME ?
English is broken
Gia Phu meanwhile pony and bologna rhyme
Lol. He refused the refuse.
Just kinda here Not if pronounced correctly
Where my Irish squad at?
Well mate
I am 89% Irish!!
half Irish boi
Here why isn't my name here what about Oisín
Right here! By the way they all sound ridiculous.
The most common Irish name for Americans is “Sean”, and Americans don’t even know it’s Irish
They also say it's spelt wrong aha
Exactly 😂
They don't know Shawn & Shaun comes from the Irish name Seán
Americans are tantamount to Neanderthal though
Most Americans actually do know that Sean is Irish. Especially if their name is Sean. Americans tend to have names that match their family heritage/ancestry.
What is the ì and é mean
“Is Irish an actual language” probably has Irish ancestry too lol
99% chance
Probably says they're Irish
She’s Jewish but yeah, a lot of Americans have some Irish ancestry
Yes Irish is its own language like deis mura duit
I'm from Ireland
*"iRiSh iS a dIfFeReNt lAnGuAgE?"*
Somebody please tell me if she was joking.
I don't think she was
Da_Rainbow Kitty they are just cultural norms
@@logansanders9307 American is NOT a language
It is tho
they do believe Europe is a country so there's that as well
"Irish is a different language?"
**angry irish grannies have entered the chat**
Kookie Krumble lol with hurl and shlitor in hand
Starts throwing potatoes
Grainnes?
@@compulsivecommenter990 yes grannies not grandma
I speak for my gramma
"There's no E in Owen-oh never mind"
American education
This needs more likes
literally lmao
i, an american, concur with your assessment. our educations system sucks ass.
Eoin
@@nataliana9089 Yeah what’s up?
American sees an accent: "oh oh we've got one of those strange symbols"
Me an italian: wait what
Eccomi :)
Italian rarely even uses accent marks. The only commen word with an accent mark is è and sì
Its called a fada it goes the opposite way see this is fada "é" and this is italian accent " ì"
@@mmbleachtasty6121 i hope you're kidding, we have plenty of words having an accent at the end. The main difference with other languages such as french or Spanish is that in italian there can't be any written accent in the middle of a word but just at the end
@@camillacolucci7576 I speak Italian as my first language and besides borrowed words there's really not alot of accent marks
*irish is a different language?*
Im losing faith in humanity
Me too
@@amelialikesyt_3927 😂
I mean us Scots and yous have gaelic
To be fair, I thought it was called Irish gaelic, not Irish.
@@Jp-gw3tu yep
Where all my Irish people at who had to suffer this torture
Right Here 🙋♀️ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
They make my blood boil... 🇮🇪🇮🇪🤦♀️🙋
Right here - puke bucket in hand 🤮
:0
here
“In a way that you wouldn’t expect ..... raisin”
"Some of these letters are not being used..." Says native English speaker. ;-D
English is such a bastard language of so many other ones. I'm learning Latin right now and it makes so much more consistent sense than English.
"Irish is a different language?" With some of these videos, I'm really starting to think that most of the Buzzfeed staff is fiercely uneducated
I think fiercely is underestimated considering the probable iq of every single personnel of their staff.
+Jarred Ocoyne Yeah, you can't expect much from Buzzfeed people.
Very true
+Jarred Ocoyne I'm staring to think Americans aren't as smart as us Irish fellas ;) they should've tried to pronounce 'Deirbhile'
+Jarred Ocoyne I agree
"Irish is a different language?" GOD DAM EVEN A LOAF OF BREAD COULD FIGURE THAT OUT!
its a dialect not a language your loaf of bread was wrong
*whistles innocently* gosh, like the nerve of some people to not know that Irish is a different language.
I'm from Ireland yes it is a laungage...in our school it's called irish laungage studies
Sadie Goulooze Nope, google it
+Sadie Goulooze Irish is a language
As an irish person myself, this is comedy gold
what's your favourite tayto crisp flauvour?
@@Emma-im7lg prawn cocktail
not really tbh
😂😂😂ik right I'm Irish too
The sad thing is when I start talking in Irish to my family for instance on the phone my friends are like “uh why are you speaking like that lol” i had to explain to them I was talking irish and most of them said “wait, irish is a diffrent language!?!”
Oh my god
they say “why are you speaking like that” though?? like they haven’t heard of different languages?! doesn’t surprise me with americans but
I just lost faith in americans in the first two seconds of this video and this comment.
Tà, ní maith liom mo chairde ansin
@@FeachArAchoimreMoChainealI am so happy that I understood most of this
'Irish is a different language' I'M GOING TO SLAP SOMEONE
I understand them because many famous Irish authors, like Joyce, wrote their works in English and not many people speak Irish. Even Irish people don't speak Irish.
김상윤 We have to learn Irish in school tho (I'm Irish but lived moved 4 years ago so I forgot all but chair)
JON fivesevenseven its called Gaelic
JON fivesevenseven omg
I know. for so many of them claiming to be Irish (even though they cannot) you think they would know we have our known language
“Irish is a different language” 😂
My Irish soul is dying
Gaelic?
@@airracer28
Nobody really calls it Gaelic, unless you count the Irish word for the Irish language (Gaeilge)
I'm 100 percent iris and this was pain
Oh that's cool, i'm a 100% cornea.
@@focusontheroadthereisnothi6763 i am 100% pupil!
"MH" is a V sound. And it makes somewhat sense when you start to play with your own sounds. In th eUSA you also have names like "Leigh" or "Lee", same thing.
It's not always a V sound, depends on the vowels either side of it (usually)... Can be a W sound too
It's not always a V sound is the H is a séimhú
How is "Lee" the same as "mh" making a V sound? Lee is "ee" making an E sound, "mh" is 2 consonants making a different consonant sound.
@@mars7612 I think she’s just pointing out examples of letters that can be pronounced differently. An American who sees the name Leigh written down would probably know to pronounce it Lee, they would know its not pronounced like neigh 🐴 with an L. In this case “gh” is pronounced “ee”, other examples are “mh” being pronounced as “v”
MH is a V.
The BH in Siobhán is a V, making it "Shevaun"
I feel like that's alota work, just use the letter V.
"Irish is a different language" oh I am so glad to be Canadian right now.
Me too buddy.
Yeah like we don't have people like that here
@@you-in5iy Because yous actually have brains in Canada😂
My Irish soul is broken "irish is a different language?" OML
ik the is a crack in my irish soul
Your irish but you never new that it was a language?WHAT THE FREAK?
Sophie Keogh I know right... Even people that aren’t irish should know that
Sophie Keogh I was like could they be any more stupider 😂
Sophie Keogh help my soul it's escaping to America with all this grammar needing people
''Irish is a different language?'' Ouch
laila1989ism oof
Ikr
Yeah it stings a little bit
Same lol
that hearts
'Irish is a different language'
~deep breath in~
Just stay calm, keep it together… 🥴
man, i love having an irish name
"asslin? ayeslin? esslin? asian? how the hell do you pronounce that?"
Oh Aisling, I'm so sorry for all the people who have wronged you ( well your name.)
Also, ARE YOU A TWOSETTER? :O
ILiveForM U S I C it's spelled aislinn, but no i don't play violin lmao i get that question a lot
@@MrEyes-xh4bb Oh oops! I apologise. Your name is very beautiful Aislinn.
ILiveForM U S I C thank you!
They should have tried aoife 😂
*they forgot Aoife.*
E-Faa.
That’s my mums name
Alfalfa
And Sorcha
Super Flute Aiofe, missing u always. Bad joke, I know. Sorry.
"Irish is a language?"
I was about to fuckin box her through the screen.
Ahh the wrath of an angry Irish woman.
is that an option ???
Emma Flynn yh it is
Emma Flynn Aw stop 😂
Same l hate when that happens
"irish is a different language" I have lost all hope for America and we're 2 seconds in
blame the natively english speakers who didnt take foreign language classes nor paid any attention in anything to do with non english subjects
As a Irish girl named Caoimhe (I pronounce it Queeva), who’s lived i. Ireland my whole life, this physically hurts my soul
i need to know, did the irish not know how to spell in english? or is it a completely different language that is written in english? because the spelling makes no sense to me, like how is Naimh pronounced Nieve? it makes 0 sense in english
@@Kai88988 Mutations is the main reason, which exists in all modern Celtic languages (like Welsh, Breton, etc.). Irish is a completely different language with its own orthography system. I am not Irish, so here is just what I observe: if a consonant follows with "h" (like the "mh"), mutation happens! (in the case of "m", into "v"/"w")
Lastly, I think the vowels are also not pronounced as they are. For Caoimhe for example, the "aoi" is pronouned "ee" or "uee" for some reason. Maybe it's like English: "aoi" is pronounced as "A-yoy" in ancient times, but speakers changed while the spelling remained. I don't know for sure...
@@Kai88988are you ok in the head? Irish is a language that exists, and is written in the *LATIN ALPHABET* (there is no English alphabet). It had different rules just as say french or Spanish does. My god I lose faith more and more everyday
I am Irish and it was so funny watching them try to pronounce Irish names😂😂
Eve O'Connell I'm not Irish but I live in Ireland and it's still quite amusing. 😁
Eve O'Connell same
Eve O'Connell same im from connacht
Eve O'Connell same
I'm from Donegal💚💚💚💚💚😃😃😃😃😃
Being Irish and watching this made me want to jump off a cliff.
yeah same
Same
I live in the States, and I am named after my great uncle, who was named after the Saint.
I live with this *every day.*
I've lost count of the number of times I've had this conversation:
"is... roo-AD-han there?"
It's pronounced like 'Roo-ahn.'
"No it's not!"
Ma'am, do you speak Gaelic? If not, then maybe *I'm* the one who knows how to say my name?
To be fair, I’m learning Irish and I could not figure out the pronunciation of tadgh.
Ur Irish n ur name is familija aleksandr
“oh no we’ve got one of those weird symbols “,
dude it’s called a fada
Its ironic... I dont think theres a fada in fada haha
oh ok i’ll edit it
but how are we meant to know that? to us these names sound made up. like how is Naimh pronounced as Nieve? it makes 0 sense in english and its plain wrong. unless this is from a completely different language that is written in english
@@Kai88988 That's cause it is
:Irish has a different language?”
Me:🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️American at her finest
Trust me, we’re not all like this.
@@ryt25 just like how I know in France they speak french, in Spain they speak Spanish🤦🏻♀️
"Irish is a different language...?"
Oh boy off to a bad start already xD
an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?
Irish people know what I'm asking ;)
*Clicks 'Translate'* Haha guess I'm Irish ayy
The most over-used phrase in primary school lmaooo
Níl cead! Níl na daone san "chat" seo ró-cliste!
No you may not.
Níl
I am Italian, so even pronouncing "John" feels like forcing my mouth to produce an almost alien sound (yeah, our phonetics is unbelievably different!). After some years I've got used to how English sounds and to how the spelling often seems to be almost completely unrelated to the pronounciation, to the point that sometimes you just can't guess how to read a word unless someone tells you how it should be pronounced and this is so strange to me, coming from a Language where every single letter of the alphabet is always pronounced in the exact same way (except for a handful of combinations such as "gn", "gl", "ch"). Then I watch this video and now I know English is a walk in the park in comparison to Irish! I guessed every single name wrong. And in a couple of cases I know I would have never guessed the right pronounciation even if I tried 20 or 50 times. Quite fascinating.
I was laughing the whole time because I am irish and i felt so smart.
Lol. Sometimes I watch teaching English videos.
Same im irish to Lmao
In Northern Ireland 'Caoimhe' is pronounced 'Keeva' but in the south it’s pronounced 'Kweeva'
I've heard a good few different pronunciations of my name, Irish and Gaelic pronunciation does mutate quite a bit in its travels from the Mizzen to the butt of Lewis; enough that people on Islay complain about BBC Alba using Stornoway Gaelic to the point of incomprehensibility.
Yes!! Finally Someone Who Knows! :)
THANK YOU
This is my friend's sister's name. I pronounce that as Kaye-mee, and I feel soooo embarassed rn
Ya I’m from Cork and we say “Kweeva”
I'M PISSED THAT THEY DIDN'T DO SIOBHAN, WHAT A CLASSIC, I ALWAYS GET SOME GOOD ONES!!!
Ur name is so easy
I’ve heard people pronounce it like this Siyo-ba-han even tho I know it’s pronounced shivawn. 😂😂dont know how to type how it’s pronounced
That’s ma sisters name
i had a girl from surinam come to my class for a while who was named siobhan so i learned how to pronounce it thankfully :)
This video came up when I was looking at the pronounciation of Siobhan....gotta say am disappointed it was not includee
Why are people mad? They are very irregular for an English speaker, they are saying it how it would be in English.
Its not the mispronunciation per se, its the attitude implied, that somehow the Irish are pronouncing this names incorrectly, because they don't follow English phonetics
I can tell you’re an American
@@tealwashablemarker8886 English
Oh my god when she said "is Irish a different language?" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Mia Doyle I was like no it's a coffee shop
Actually We speak galic here in Ireland
Alannah O Neill ooooohhhhhhhhh
I know it's hard to believe for some, but to a person who is not Irish or exposed to the Irish culture, it can be a common misconception, I believe, to think Irish is simply a people and an accent. Again, it may seem obvious, but not necessarily for someone who, in their young life, never really had a reason to question otherwise. ❤️
TannaKota agghhhhhhh good Did ty do geography we learned everything even America 😬we probably know more than you do about your country 😬boom slan
This burned my Irish soul
Aoibhe Emilia they are fecking eejits
Same 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Same. I was cringing so bad 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Me too
Aoibhe Emilia honestly mood every time this is recommended to me!! my sister’s name is Caoimhe, let her live :(
Póg mo thoin (kiss my butt in irish
Uachtar reoite(ice cream)
Gailge (irish)
Here’s a irish name!
Chloghda (clo-da) pronunciation
Caoimhe (queeva)pronunciation
Sóricha(sor-ic-a)pronunciation
Here’s what ireland looks like!....
🌧 🌧 🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧
Girl: Irish is a different language
I SEE YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH
Any other Irish person get annoyed when they said Caoimhe was Keeva. For people who aren’t Irish, Caoimhe is pronounced Kweeva
Grace Owen IKR!!! My best friend is called Caoimhe but everyone calls her Keeva!
YEAH I KNOW IT MAKES ME CRINGE!!
I was told by a girl named Caoimhe that there's two ways to pronounce it, depending on what part of Ireland you're from. It's either kee-va or kwee-va.
Considering it was her name, I took her word for it.
Its keeva in the north lol queeva makes me cringe
Ikr its pronounced kweeva!
"Americans try to pronounce Arabic or Hebrew names"
Star 1999 Y
Star 1999 That's what I was thinking too!
LordWellington15 Y NOT
Arabic and Hebrew names are long and require you to use your throat a lot. Those are probably the hardest names to pronounce.
Chinese names :D
Tip for the Americans, a lot of the time an S is a Sh sound and mh is a th or v sound
Oh boy off to a great start - “Irish is a different language”.
And all the yanks on st paddys day " im irish"!!!!! Every other day : " Irish is a language??"
I'm also Irish 🍀🍀🍀 #irishbudds
Totally agree! I'm American, and I hate when other Americans tell me they're Irish.
siobhan doherty lol I feel you
PAULA BELLIARD omg thats so funny because I am Irish! And the language i study in school is called Irish! Yes our main language is English but parts of Ireland (Gaeltacht) speak irish!! The language is not ‘Gaelic’ it is Irish and is widely spoken.lmaooo
PAULA BELLIARD hahahhahahah
All my friends are like "Daithi and Tadgh, Roisin, Maeve" and I'm over here like "My names John..." XD
Same. Fucking Niamh, clionagh, Ronan and Ruairi. Most fucking Irish names ever. I'm just like, hi I'm Nathan Lee. No I'm not Asian I'm Irish.
Nathan Lee Hehe I'm John Jekaterina... I'm only 1/4 russin ffs =O
I rarely hear Rhodes names and I am Irish
And I'm only 1/8 English :3
I've no clue how Irish my name is "Daragh"
Now we know that in Irish “mh” sounds like “v”
but it can also sound like w
And bh sounds v
@@con_ant6032 is that not bhf?
Aedrim I’m not sure, my sister’s name is Aoibhe, which is pronounced Eva. So I just assumed that bh=v from that
@@con_ant6032 Actually now that I think about it, bhí, the most common word in irish, is pronounced vee. So yeah you would be right. I'm just used to bh being prounounced as w in alot of words
The actual sounds are pleasant to my ears but the visuals are like a bag of rocks.
0:26 Ma'am, that _weird_ symbol is called a fada
Yes it is
Fada meaning long, so lengthening/exaggerating the verb
There is a Swedish person above by the name of Alexander Fooy who insists on calling the sineadh fada an accent mark, even though it doesn't mark accents.
Tá
@@ruadhan6707 originally it does have the name "accent mark", although in Hungarian we don't use it to mark accents either. Here the accentuated syllable is fixed (always the first) and we use these marks the same way as Irish, to lengthen the vowels.
“Irish is a different language “ someone hold my beer I’m bout to swing a chair at someone😂👀
Mate these people are clueless mygodddd😴😴
I'm 10% Irish and can pronounce all of those names.
Clara B ur not Irish
Dia duit! Conas atà tu?
Honestly though
Crazyanimal guy tá mé go maith
Caoimhe is not even pronounced "Ceemha"
ITS PRONOUNCED "CWEEBHA"
"GRAINNE" HAS A FADA IN IT!SO ITS "GRÁINNE"
EOGHAN IS MOSTLY SPELT AS "EOIN"
Btw I know lots of people pronounce it different, it's just I've never heard of anyone spelling it other ways!dont be offended 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I know they pronounced caoimhe so weird 😂
Caoimhe is pronounced two different ways my wee sister is call caoimhe we say it like keyva but my friend is called caoimhe pronounced kweva💚🤍🧡
In Russian this are Кыве and Гранья))
THANK YOUUU. I SAY CWEEBHA AND I WAS SO ANGRY THEY GOT IT WRONG
Caoimhe Folan you can say it two ways keeva or kweeva
Aaaahh this is my fave content watching ppl say names i have said an heard a billion times
Oh my god this absolutely kills me. I’m so sorry for all the Irish people who watched this, not all Americans are as uncultured as them.
Thank goodness 😂😅
That’s good to know. 😂
She meant to say," not all Americans are as uncultured as THEY," not them. Some of us know grammar as well.
@Elizabeth Lyons Are you joking or do you just have terrible grammar?
Elizabeth Lyons I know what I said. Check yourself, Elizabeth.
My sister Niamh and I just watched this for a laugh, we both have Irish/Gaelic names. Well done America
Ekat The Bear same ahahaha
Ekat The Bear you mean gaeilige names unless you arent using munster irish
Ekat The Bear my friends name is niamh 😂
Ekat The Bear mine is saoirse and people say like sarsha and it manes me triggerd
kelly m my name is niamh!!
Let me break it down
Tai-g
Rosheen
Seer-sha
Ke-va
Owen
Ma-raid
Ni-v
Graun-ya
In a way, we're all taigs
They were all so confident in their answers🤦🏽♀️😂
Honestly I'm Irish and I don't even know some of these
I am Irish. Seriously most of these are so common besides Mairéad and Roisín.
My name is Eoghan, and people here mispronounced my name till I got to secondary school. Cx
Smokez360
Róisín is fairly common too. I'm from Dublin and I know a few Róisíns.
TheIrishPC Ya I'm from Cork i suppose it's just less common down here because i only know of 1 Róisín.
Smokez360 I thought Roisín was pretty common. At least where I live
I’m so upset,
My name is Niamh.
This gave me anxiety
Literally every teacher says this to me .
Kaiyo Nightcore Niamhe is the only one I know how to pronounce straight away.
Oh dw about it I'm Irish and I have an Irish name unlike all the common Irish ones (it's ornaith pronounced or na) and all my teachers (who are Irish) get it wrong unless theyre an Irish teacher or are really good at guessing
I'm literally so in love with name Niamh, but I don't want my child to suffer from people who can't grasp the spelling in America or any other country, so I might have to elope one day from everyone to Ireland just to call my daughter this gorgeous name
Her:”Taig”
Me: *sweating profusely*
Is someone gonna tell her?
Lol Inside Northern Ireland jokes
JC Music no really mate am Scottish
KrisAjerFan1888 Lol we all get it anyway
Тыгь)
2:26 Well I'm sory iff our language is a bit different to English and just cuz it's different doesn't mean it wrong😤😤😤
OMG I'm Irish and did not actually even contemplate how difficult it would be for people outside Ireland to pronounce those haha, I just thought everyone could LOL. That was so funny :D
***** YH lol exept I'm Polish and I live in Ireland
Alicja Sparkle me too, I was born in Poland but I moved to Ireland when I was 1. Now I'm 11 ☺
LpsAngel Awesome!! Can you still speak Polish?
Same
***** i know right XD
Caoimhe is pronounced qweeva not keeva
+Alex Houlihan i think it depends where you're from, I have friends that pronounce it both ways
+Alex Houlihan It depends or what part of the country your in in the South East we say it as qweeva mainly but I've hear keeva aswell
+Darán Antoin Are u from clare??? i am
J_Da_Beast Tipperary
Darán Antoin What part cause I have cousins from Rossgrey (idk how to spell it)
0:59 your narrator pronounced that wrong.
It's not "Cee-va" it's "Cwee-vaa"
You're right that in the southern dialects of Irish, it's pronounced "kwee-va", but in the Ulster dialect it's pronounced "kee-va"
I know two one prounouced kweeva one just keeva I think it’s your choice
We say "Cee-va" in Ulster
Its cee-va in certain counties but here in donegal its cwee-ca
Ngl cwee-va sounds like queef
“It’s one of those Special Characters i don’t know how to say”
Ahh. Classic Americans
I love the name Saoirse
its my cousin name
Thanks, I like it.
Rachel Marie hehe that my name
***** "sir-sha" is how you would usually pronounce it. It's not difficult once you get used to it.
there was this cartoon character in secret of kells and she was like what you think of when you think of saoirshe
Seriously guys, Niamh was by far the easiest to pronounce. Or maybe I'm just saying that because I'm Irish. Anyone else here Irish? :D
Yes what county u from im from down
lochlainn Maguire castlewellan
It's only easy because we're Irish so we know what it is.
Also, it's not keeva as it was pronounced, it's. Queeva
In my opinion, Naimh is by far one of the prettiest names I've ever heard, and I was shocked at how hard it was for them to pronounce it.
“Uh oh, one of those weird symbols!”
An accent?
a fada
i love that americans are telling us how to speak our own language
Yeah I know 😂
If you're not related to someone who has one of these names
Are you really Irish?
DAMNNNNN
Lol I have a cousin named ciamhe and an uncle named Cìaràn
my name isn’t on here. it literally means dirt
I’m 25% Irish so uhmm that doesn’t count
haha im american but some of my cousins are roisín, ciarán, and cian, and my foster cousin is dáithí. some are normal though like laura and eliza even though they all live in ireland
I'm from Ireland and these "correct" pronounciations are so off like wtf
XxMLG-DABxX LOL ikr
XxMLG-DABxX LOL I KNOW
Yeah 😂
XxMLG-DABxX LOL I'm pretty sure it veries from county to county.
XxMLG-DABxX LOL ikr Caoimhe was the worst it's cweeva not ceeva
Ooh, I watch these videos to laugh and whenever my name (niamh) comes up they are so lost it's the funniest thing.
“Uh oh we got one of those weird symbols” boils my blood
"Irish is a different language?"
Me- cue with the face palm 😂
Love the Irish way of spelling Neve/Niamh
No pretty sure Neve is the American way of spelling Niamh not the other way around.
I know my name is Oisín I also face palmed
My names Niamh!!
Where was Eamonń?
My name is Niamh :)
I've had so many different spellings and pronunciations of my name!! I think my favourite, is a Starbucks spelling from a few weeks ago, Chiffon, I suddenly became fabric lol!! I must say, even with an Irish name myself, I did struggle with a few of these.
Shiv-aw-n? That's how you pronounce Siobhan isn't it? I found some of these difficult but I thought somebody was going to get Niamh (I see it as a fairly common name because my sister is called Niamh)
Omg I feel your pain I've been called Ain , Anne , Annie or when I was in America in Starbucks they spelt my name Anya 😂
I have a principal with that name Siobhan is just the Irish way of spelling shivawn
Hahaha we have the same name Starbucks is so funby
+HeyitsAine ha that's my friends name took me a while and I'm Irish 😂😂
“I feel like these could make a comeback”..... these names are so common now
When the lassie said “taig” a though ooooo shite 😂
They never did the most popular one, Aoife (Eeefah) or siobhan (Shivon)
ZE LOUD SAW Oisín (Usheen)
Oisin Barker yeah thought theyd do siobhan lmao
ZE LOUD SAW
Or Séamus
ZE LOUD SAW yeah
ZE LOUD SAW I honestly love the name Aoife.
Omg I’m Irish and I’m cringing so hard rn
The person said Caoimhe wrong as well
SuperAwesome Alex same
Ikr like “ irish is a language??” Like what omg yeas i learn it in school everyday
Ya,I really need more of this
SuperAwesome Alex OMG yeah same 😂
The way they say my names if how my teacher pronounce it *flash backs*
“The e has no use”
English speakers: *queue*
Dude, is originally french word, not the best example tbh
I'm from Ireland I'm sorry but I'm cracking up right know
+Leah O'Brien is that craic - ing? :)
+Leah O'Brien ikr, it's Kwee-va, not kee-va. Yanks, right?
+Leah O'Brien
An féidir leat labhairt ar aon hÉireann
+Leah O'Brien Sammeee like My god..ooo My names really tara and half my family says it like Tar-ea Tar-a -Tai-r-ea when really its just Ta-ra
+Leah O'Brien ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)
THIS IS KILLING MY IRISH SSSSOOOUUULLL
Paula Flanagan I know right its so annoying that they have never heard these names
Paula Flanagan same here
they're american, do you really expect them to be educated on irish names?
no but being irish it hurts hearing them
They would've tripped badly over my name. It's Aislinn,but it's pronounced "ash-lynn"
Me an Irish citizen: *facepalms with table*
Aparently my name is raisin 😂
Roisin Molloy poor roisin
MR. MooseTache dont you mean raisin
Roisin Molloy 😂😂😂
Awww thats ok, my name is Saoise
Roisin Molloy 😂😂
"Irish is a different language?" - OH MY GAAWWWDDD!! THIS IGNORANCE!!! IT'S UNBEARABLE!!
和ァ独 Right?! I hated when that one guy at 2:26 said, "There is no other way to pronounce it. If they say it a different way, it's wrong." Um, there are other languages in the world besides English, you know. -_-
Yeah,also when that girl said the fada was a weird symbol I'd like to see them try an Irish class
French really isn't that hard, apparently polish is one of the hardest languages using the latin alphabet. Basque is apparently also difficult.
L Haidar
I feel like the lack of American English variants (and please tell me if I'm wrong) and the "American pride" are factors that lead people to not appreciate language diversity. Cause if they would care, those hundreds of Native American languages wouldn't be close to extinction. And maybe if they had a more positive attitude about Native American culture and so on, every American would learn a bit of a Native American language that used to be spoken in their area before Westerners came to the New World.
Pro side though: many Americans learn at least a bit Spanish. So that's a start.
Molly O Callaghan
Was fada that diacritic?
1:02 even the narrator says it wrong😂😂
As an Irish person this made me want to crumple my phone into a ball
mh means v in the irish language as there is no v in the irish alphabet i am irish if you never knew
i also have an irish accent
+Jerry mccausland congratulations you're like 5 million other people
was that sarcasm
Partially
Which county? Laois here
I'm bad at Irish and I am Irish
Yet you still were able to correct me on a different comment, XD shows how much I know
+Aaron Ryan are you related to Darragh Ryan?
+J_Da_Beast there are three million people in Ireland, there is no way of knowing the same darragh as you, and no I'm not related to any darragh's
Aaron Ryan actually 4mil but I thought u were cause my friend has a cousin named Aaron! Soz for wasting your time
+J_Da_Beast yeah, no prob
It’s great to see Irish culture and identity getting air time - thank you.
Eilis is also an Irish name which has become more popular because of Billie Eilis - there’s fadas in Eilis too so it’s authentically spelt Éilís
There’s a few people in my class/school named some of these
I want to be a teacher, but this literally discouraged me. Like on the first day of school taking role. "Boh-ni, no uh, bic-neur, wait, BAFIRGH!" "It's pronounced Ben"
there was someone in my class calld echlan, pronoucned ek-lan, i gurentee everyone with an awkward name will tell u an easier way
My real name is niamh teachers hate me 😂😂😂😂
I laughed at your comment way too long lol
rosie worldxx I would probably call you "Nye-Am-Ah" or "Nee-ah-mmm-heh"
***** That would work only if you'd know how to spell their names.. you'd be like "what are they saying?!? those names aren't on the list!"
There's no v , k or j in Irish , which is the reason for bh and mh being pronounced like v
+LucianoThePig No z either
+LucianoThePig
So do early attempts at conlanging by children involve them changing out words like Siobhan with more English-like variations? Siovan? Shivan?
+h3lblad3 No. If an Irish child is called Siobhan then they'd know how their own name is spelt and pronounced , like with any name
+h3lblad3 Also most Irish names have no English version
LucianoThePig
You obviously misunderstood what I said.
1:11 😂😂 you guessed better than my supply teachers
Anytime someone says 'irish is a language' pisses Me off BTW all celtic languages are older then English edit :irish names aren't spelt weird. Like English has tough enough, phone.
I'm Irish and pissing me self
Teigan Kav I'm Irish and I know how you feel
Same XD
Teigan Kav, SAME 😂
Haha same here
Bro ikr