Saoirse Ronan Explains How to Pronounce Her Name
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Margot saying "...what was the difference...." was all of us
We say seer-sha, Americans tend to say sur-sha
@@koksu5692 ahhh! Thanks for clarifying!
@@koksu5692 she didn't once say seer-sha though. She repeatedly said sur-sha. And it's her name so she probably knows how to say it doesn't she?
@@koksu5692 there really isn't though.
@@mydogeatspuke also look at the movement of her mouth when pronouncing ‘seer-sha’ she is clearly enunciating the ‘seer’ as opposed to the monotone movement for ‘sur-sha’ if you can see it
She is definitely tired of people asking this in every freaking interview she ever has
She was the one making a big fuss out of it and now it’s a Tedious, repetitive task 😂😂😂
She made it her trademark, talking about it all the time in interviews
@@Samuel-bg7xo the interviewers brought it up
@@AndyGilleand she would have a publicist who agrees with the interviewer what can be asked, the SNL song was annoying. America is a diverse nation, a non Anglo name can't be that surprising and there is a large Irish diaspora in the States
It’s her fault for having such a silly spelled name lol
The look in her eyes when Margot Robbie couldn't hear the difference. 😂
can you???
She is aussie.
What difference? 😅
@@mjmulenga3 the smallest miniscule different that it's not worth even saying there's one
@@Fredsinatorhey're so clearly different, one is "seersha" and one is "sersha"
To be fair, I am Irish and I can't distinguish the first two Saoirse pronunciations...
Same 😂
I am not a native English speaker and for me it's clear. It's funny because many times the native English speakers are showing a difference and I don't get it.
Seh-er-sha vs. Ser-Sha maybe?
@@Verahm. Close. It’s siərsha vs sursha.
The difference is there, but it's subtle, and I wouldn't have noticed it if Saoirse hadn't been discussing its pronunciation. The first syllable is slightly drawn out in the 'Irish' way.
Sounded exactly the same. Even my Northern Irish husband said it sounded exactly the same to him. Lol
That's because she mispronounces it. The letters "aoi" make the long e sound. It's actually pronounced "seer sha." That's why the name Aoife is pronounced "ee fah" and not "ir fah." There's only one way.
She is saying seer
The last vocal is 'e' not 'a'. That's the only difference I could hear tbh
So even she can't pronounce her own name 😂😂
@@TigersandBearsOhMyyeah, the more i kept listenenin, the more i heard "seersha" than "sirsha". Now I know ❤
Had to listen to it about 5 times before I heard the difference. It's SO subtle, but there's no doubt she knows how her own name should sound.
what was the difference?
When she said it (the correct way), it was a long e. Meanwhile, other people ("American version") used a shorter e
(Read the first few comments)
My names dearbhla. Try to pronounce that
The way it’s pronounced is something like Say-or-shah, due to the “aoi” spelling, rather than American’s pronouncing it as Ser-sha
you literally misspelled her name in the title
LMAO
well sao-rise is like star rise bcause sao is star in vietnamese hihi
@@no_longer_ cool
That's the Irish spelling 😏
I feel her pain. My name is Snehasmita Chakraborty and I am in France. Imagine the pronunciation. I can literally see their brains melt when I do the syllables.
Os seus pais estavam com raiva de você quando te deram esse nome?
it's so easy for me as an indian, curious, do you go by sneha? i feel like smita would be easier for them to catch on
Ouch ça doit faire mal ! Je compatis
It could be worse - at least it's not Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz. Do you know him? He was born in Chrząszczyżewoszyce, powiat Łękołody. 🙂
"Australian and New Zealand accents are extremely different. They're like 'weh's the cah?' and we're like 'weh's the cah?'"
I mean, they are pretty different. But try and transcribe that difference using only our 26-letter alphabet, now thAt’s difficult 😮
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see your Flight of the Conchords reference :D
NZ English is Australian English with swapped vowels. Soap=Soup, Six=Sex, Sucks=Six.
If I ever meet her, I'll just call her Ms. Ronan, problem solved.
Watch people mistakenly say Ms. Rona like the pandemic 🤣
For those wondering what the difference is, (she kinda articulates it poorly) it’s a different in vowels in the “saoir” part of her name. Here’s the ipa for anyone that’s curious: sɪərʃə, sɜːrʃə (the first one is what she describes as the Irish way, the second one is the “american” way). Basically, what that means is the proper way to say the name is a combination of two vowels, a short i as in kIt or hIstoric, and a reduced shwa as in commA or bAzzar. So it’s siərsha. Whereas, the American pronunciation is like “ur” in nURse or blURRy, or sursha. So there’s the difference for y’all, siərsha vs sursha. Hope this helps!!
Edit: actually she says something closer to sɛrʃə but sɪərʃə is how it’s written on the Wikipedia page, so 🤷
Wow thanks so much for this 💞
@@Stossburg ikr
@@Stossburg ikr
@@Stossburg ikr
It really does help... Thank you
This is like the phonetic difference between "sheets" and "she eats".
It's subtle but there absolutely IS a difference.
uhm yeah, it's called a pause
No its not. She said it the same
This is a great way to explain the difference. When you speak like you normally would the pause is soooo quick and subtle yet its heard and makes a difference. English just doesn't have a vowel sound that sounds this way so we don't hear it easily when she tries to explain the difference
@@smith549371no my name is saoirse and it’s either seer-sha or ser-sha there’s definitely a difference
@@smith549371 no she didn't, but the difference was in the correct pronunciation, she used the Irish vowel sound. In the incorrect one, she used the English vowel sound. There's a slight vowel sound difference that pretty much comes naturally depending on what language your used to.
Video title: "Saorise" 🤡
Hahaha
bruh i read the title and pronounced, “sa-owrise” LMAO
Sao-rise sunrise
Sauron
I'm going to call her Suarez 😈
I can hear the difference. The correct way is a soft say-er-sha, not ser-sha.
The best way I’ve ever heard her explain is to say it like the word ‘ inertia’
And that's literally what she is saying is wrong, since she would pronounce inertia differently than the word itself.
ih-NEAR-shuh (right)
ih-NUHR-shuh (wrong
It ain't difficult. Really.
it's more 'sear' sha than 'ser' sha but you can use Ser sha too. You're welcome non Irish people
I thought she ended it with "eh" and not "uh" as well. As in sear-sheh and not sear-shuh
@HouseMDaddict You're right, I missed that, since I knew there was a difference at the end but couldn't quite put my finger on what it was
I'm so proud that I actually heard the difference, Sweden here.
I will rememeber that explanation though, great!👍
@JaneDoe-ci3gj Oh wow congrats, very well caught. I doubt I could do that with a Swedish accent so that's very impressive
"Leviosa not leviosa."
but I wanted to know how to Saoirse Ronan ☹️
I served a woman today named Saoirse and I said "is that an Irish name? Just like that actress?"
And she said "yeah, but you can just call me May"
Hahaha
Jaja, una crack 😂
Sao Rise, sao Set. Swiftly flow the days.
It is YOU
SCREAMINF
Sao rise, Sao set, you wake up then you undress, it always is the same ❤
The difference is ‘seer-sha’ Vs ‘ser-sha’. It’s very subtle.
in her accent it’s non existent 😂 In another Irish persons accent it might be easier to hear.
I hear it when you phonetically spelt it 🎉
And the r is pronounced in the back of mouth rather than the front
Been watching her since her first movie n counting. Beautiful woman
She's trolling us, isn't she.
Shirley she is.
@@O_Lee69 - You surely can't be serious. - I am serious. And don't call me Surely.
@@romkahehe yep, I got that reference 😅 And that feels good 😊
Ànd reminds me of how old I am 😂
Me, who learned english as second language: 💀
Actual pronunciation: Sersha
Americans say: Sursha, Sarsha
As a Sorcha I feel your pain Saoirse. People often mispronounce my name as yours.
The difference is in the last syllable, "-eh" vs "-ah"
Sair-sha vs Ser-sha. The latter syllable is non-stressed so it makes a schwa sound no matter the accent.
That reply raises so many questions I don't even know where to start lmao
No. It's in the first syllable. The vowel sound is slightly different.
I thought it was the stress on the first syllable vs no stress.
That's how I hear it
She is just so beautiful ❤😮
Subtle phonetic differences. I can hear sîrsha (correct - how Irish people say ) sôrsha & sârsha (easier for Americans and English people to say)
Saoirse is a mood!!
Americans: Ser-sha
Irish: Sair-sha
It seems subtle when she says it, but I have an Irish friend with that name, and when she says it, you can clearly hear Sair-sha. She even once said this actress doesn't say it right. lol
Thanks, I could hear it but it's a really tiny difference.
Most beautiful woman ever.
MARGOT ROBBIE OMFG
I remember in an interview (I think Jimmy Kimmel) she said that even she forgets how to pronounce her name at times.
the rhotic and end vowels are slightly higher/more fronted in the irish version
Saoirse sells seashells, for sure.
And Margot makes marmalade, make no mistake.
When it looped I genuinely thought it was a new question
Both naturally beautiful
i replayed it like 100 times and saoirse sounds like saosha and sasha sounds like sersha
I love her
It would be helpful if she would say what part we Americans are getting wrong. Like, the sounds of an American and an Irish accent are different and we literally don’t even hear the same sounds after a certain age so we don’t really know what to listen for. So many interviewers have said the two pronunciations sound the same and I agree but I would like to be pronouncing her name correctly but don’t know where to begin to fix the problem, just, “You’re doing it wrong.” I’ve listened to videos over and over and cannot figure it out. 😢
Only if she cares how people pronounce her name. Like, some people want their names pronounced in a very specific way and will take the time to explain it. Others, just, don't want to put the energy into it, and that's fine.
Every British person I've ever met pronounces my name the British way (I'm American), and I literally don't care. My name is pronounced care-uh, but they always say car-uh. (It's not just an accent thing because they do have an air/err sound in their accent.) Simon Cowell did it to Kara DioGuardi for two full seasons of American Idol, and she just let it happen.
Of course, it does complicate matters that some Americans named Kara/Cara pronounce their name the "British" way.😆
I listened a few times. I *think* it's the first vowel that is different: "seer" vs "sur", but I think different Americans would have different pronunciations too. Consider how some people pronounce Siri!
@@NellFace yes, it's exactly that - she has explained that in another interview. Irish say "seer-sha", while Americans say "sur-sha".
It is the difference between pronouncing it as sur-sha vs. sea-ur-sha
There are a few differences I can hear, one is the emphasis on the back end of the first syllable, which is a thing in Irish accents. There's also the second syllable, which has a very short cut off end with a sort of catch in the throat, where the American pronunciation has a flatter, more drawn out ahhh. Instead of the word being two syllables of equal length and emphasis, the Irish pronunciation sounds like it's 2/3rds "Saoeur" and 1/3rd "scheh".
I like your profile and intelligently... your pronunciation is good 👍❤❤
It’s like she’s rolling an “R” 1/1000th of the way
I think she’s saying “Ser-ish-ah” instead of “Ser-shah”, but so quick and subtle I’m not even sure if I’m right
Almost, but not quite. What she's saying doesn't really have an equivalent in English. Something to do with Irish pronunciation, but I don't know any of the correct terms.
It's so funny cuz I been living in Ireland for the past 7 years and I could actually hear the difference now 😭😭😂😂
Those are nice eyes and I love what she's wearing.
"how to saoirse ronan" killed me
I think :treads lightly: it's less heaviness on the SH that makes it my or correct
Obvs Sashar is wrong.
bless Margot
BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL EYES!!
WEIRD WEIRD COMMENT!
it's seer-sha vs sur-sha for those who didn't get it
She never says "seer-sha"
@@JACpotatos it’s true (source am Irish)
I see this actress's name pronunciation in so many of her interviews and I STILL find myself forgetting it. This time I hope it sticks!!! I feel terrible inside eveytime 😭
if this question is ever asked again I'm gonna slap whoever asked it off the seat!!!!
Sersha is trolling us.
I love Saoirse
I listened 3 times - I couldn’t tell the difference and I swear I’m good at this stuff
Listened to this a few times and can't hear the difference
in my mind, one is more like "say-air-sha" smashed together and the other is like surshuh. lol
The “Lovely Bones” main cast😍
Soursa and soursha got it!
you misspelled her name in the title
What a lovely name ❤
Yeah, zero explanation given, very helpful…
She explained it by demonstrating. If you can't hear the difference, then you probably never will.
Either way, the way she pronounces it is more akin to "sear-sha" than "ser-sha" like people seem to think. Evidently, she doesn't have a problem with the pronunciation, hence the lack of a proper explanation, but she still demonstrated it.
The thing is people speaking different languages and accents are more likely to notice certain sounds and nuances than others, as demonstrated by the discussions in the comments here mentioning a number of ways to pronounce the name. You're better off just to digging up the IPA spelling and hoping it matches.
@@evvez speaking of digging up the ipa, I found it! Here’s the explanation I came up with: For those wondering what the difference is, (she kinda articulates it poorly) it’s a different in vowels in the “saoir” part of her name. Here’s the ipa for anyone that’s curious: sɪərʃə, sɜːrʃə (the first one is what she describes as the Irish way, the second one is the “american” way). Basically, what that means is the proper way to say the name is a combination of two vowels, a short i as in kIt or hIstoric, and a reduced shwa as in commA or bAzzar. So it’s siərsha. Whereas, the American pronunciation is like “ur” in nURse or blURRy, or sursha. So there’s the difference for y’all, siərsha vs sursha. Hope this helps!!
FRREEEEDDOOMMM!!!
That's extremely beautiful name
If I'm right, it's like -shuh, not -shah
I'm so badly in love of her. I know that I'll never gonna meet Sasha in my life, but it feels warming when I think of her and fall deeply into those amazing blue eyes.
I pronnounce "Sá-Oír-Zi" 🤣
Literally just say it with an irish accent lol
Such pretty name
Sersha, there you. Logical.
Freedom baby!!!!
Its the end, irish one sounds like "sye" american "sha"
Niiiiikolaj
“Okay” Lmao he was annoyed/mad. It does sound the same.
Is it not just the emphasis on the syllables? She's emphasizing SER-sha instead of ser-SHA.
The last one how to Saoirse Ronan 😂
Agree with margo
Sasha it is.
If I'm not wrong Irish say it with a lil bit of an E tint to it and american it has an O pronunciation
finally the noticed the Irish R sound was different it was more of a rolling R like in old English, sorry if I am wrong this is just the difference I heard
I just heard SEARCHA
when i first saw her name i read it as "sa-weerz" lol
That was the exact same
uh sound at the end not ah.
"saursha" i guess..the u is very subtle
The only possible difference I'm imagining that I can hear, is the R sound. The Irish version one being slightly more emphasized and rolled like the Irish do.
Heard that name on Willow
The last vowels are different
my dumbass has been saying "Say-orss" until now 😂
One of those names that makes me think the meaning of life is easier to solve. 😂😂. I love it.
100% EXACTLY the same
i’m convinced she’s playing a huge prank on everyone
This reminds me of the Nuni SNL sketch 🤣
She tried it 😂
And we also have Robbie say 'Rinan' for Ronan.
Whew....
Beautiful name...beautiful woman!
And a genuinely excellent actor.... wishing her all the best
I'm in love
The difference is the way irish people pronounce it is more of a “seer-sha” while Americans pronounce it as “sur-sha”
Yeah, my cousin is called Saoirse and she always has to correct people on it, since she and the rest of my family say seer-sha
As a brazilian, the difference for me is really subtle. I’d have a hard time trying to pronunciate the right way. The irish accent and pronunciation is something I could understand in Dublin, but I’m not so sure in smaller cities.