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Saoirse pronouncing

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BHillary · 12/04/2018 18:30

How do you pronounce Saoirse?

Sur-sha or sear-sha?

I prefer the first but not if it isn't correct hmm.

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IntelligentYetIndecisive · 14/04/2018 11:22

Seer-shuh

Slievenamon · 14/04/2018 11:20

because in a Dublin accent 'inertia' is pronounced 'in-air-sha'

No, it isn't.

OliviaStabler · 14/04/2018 11:08

Sir Sher

MayFayner · 14/04/2018 11:03

But harriet I actually don't know why I'm being so pedantic with you. Something about your first post annoyed me but I was wrong to pick on you, I'm sorry.

MayFayner · 14/04/2018 10:03

harriet I think it should be pronounced the way I suggested on page one of the thread.

Maybe if you RTFT before posting you would have seen that everything valid you said had already been said before, numerous times, by lots of other posters.

So your comment about the thread being full of crap, or similar, was unnecessary.

harrietm87 · 14/04/2018 07:53

@MayFayner not sure why you're being so pedantic over this - do you actually disagree with what I said about the correct pronunciation of the name? (Ie the point of this thread). How do you think it should be pronounced?

If you really want to split hairs what I said was correct - "a Dublin accent" doesn't mean "all Dublin accents" - I've got lots of Dub friends who pronounce it that way.

You'll see that other posters on the thread agree with me. But whatever.

mathanxiety · 14/04/2018 07:04

It's not Sur-sha or ser-sha or Sir-sha (all of which I would pronounce the same).

It's either Seer-sha or Sair-sha.

Seer-sha is Connemara and Ulster Irish and Sair-sha is SE, SW Ireland Irish.

Saoirse Ronan mispronounces it because in a Dublin accent 'inertia' is pronounced 'in-air-sha', but I suspect she has been taught somewhere along the way not to say 'in-air-sha' and to use the more D4 'in-ur-sha' pronunciation - however she says her name rhymes with 'in-ur-sha', maybe because she is seeing it in writing in her head instead of listening to the sounds. Hence all the 'sur-sha' problems.
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TheDowagerCuntess - Grin that was unforgettable.

Bettyfood · 14/04/2018 06:43

Thanks Nigel Wink I will try that. I'll certainly ask any Sorchas I meet how to pronounce their name first, anyway!

Have to say I prefer the pronunciation of "sawsha" as a name and also like Saorise.

abiirthdaycake · 14/04/2018 06:39

@Bettyfood if you say "surrogate" without the T at the end you've practically got it, if that helps

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 14/04/2018 06:10

It is such a horrid name and sound. Sorry.

Bettyfood · 14/04/2018 05:52

I'm glad I've never had to say "sorcha" irl then! I've only ever heard people say "sawsha" for that name, never heard anyone say "sur a ka". I think "sorka" is as close as I could get to that in my accent without sounding ridiculous. Though I knew Saorise = sirsha.

abiirthdaycake · 14/04/2018 05:45

I do actually remember Sorchagate, the best part was OP claiming hers was the Scottish version and someone replied "how do you pronounce 'loch' then?"

TheDowagerCuntess · 13/04/2018 19:54

Does anyone remember the Sorcha thread from a few years ago?

That raged on and on....!!

The OP wanted to use it for her baby girl and pronounce it Saw-sha.

Let's just say it didn't go well.

MrsLemonadeBrain · 13/04/2018 18:13

Sair shuh/ or serr shuh.
I think it’s a lot to do with accents imo

eloisesparkle · 13/04/2018 17:02

Seer sha

TinyPawz · 13/04/2018 16:27

@squoosh Gobnait 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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BHillary · 13/04/2018 16:25

I've not got a bleeding clue about he Frances thing nor am I bothered cause I don't like the name lol, my posts about this name not that one.

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squoosh · 13/04/2018 16:16

The Frances debate raged on and on Grin

RavenWings · 13/04/2018 16:09

Seer-sha. I love the republic, freedom connotation of the name but not everyone will.

abiirthdaycake · 13/04/2018 16:08

Oh god, not the Frances thing again...

Slievenamon · 13/04/2018 16:03

Of course you haven't. Frances with a short a or Frances with a long a, the same way bath is either bath or barth or castle or carstle.

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BHillary · 13/04/2018 16:02

I'm midlands and have only ever heard one way of saying Frances.. ?
Lol

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Slievenamon · 13/04/2018 15:36

It's called an accent! No English person is surprised that someone from the North of England says Frances differently to someone in the South of England, cos they have different accents. We have them too, even if English people think there is just one "Irish accent".

LorelaiRoryEmily · 13/04/2018 15:23

I'm Irish and I pronounce it seer-sha, it I know other Irish people who say sir-sha. It's an accent thing and I think either is fine

squoosh · 13/04/2018 15:14

Justice for Sorchas!

I think the problem is that some Sorchas have been complicit in the shushing their own name. You need to call a Sorcha AGM and tell them to put an end to this nonsense. Let them know that any Sorcha who pronounces her names as sore-sha will henceforth be known as Gobnait!

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