Irish pronunciation

[Dilbertian]

How do you pronounce the Irish PM's title, please?

Teeshook

Tea-shook is how we say it but I think it varies throughout the regions and it is a long time since I was home

Tea-shuck

With the stress on which syllable?

The first

Great, thanks.

Tea-shock

It's probably closer to thee-shuck (like three without the r)

It's teashock. Emphasis on first syllable, as PP wrote. If you can stick a soft t sound in, even better. (Not "thee" though).

yeah, I'd go with teashock, but the 't' is pronounced kind of like the th in Thames, sort of soft

My td is tainiste... tawn ish t. It's easier to call them Leo and Simon Coveney like we do, the health minister is also called Simon. He is about 12, but doing ok just now.

Ah now don’t bring Tainiste into it 😂

(In my head it’s teashop )

@WildIrishRose1 I am also Irish and that's how I (and many fellow irish) pronounce it. It's not a hard tea sound like tea the drink, (to me) its softer like the th at the start of three

Tea shock or just Leo

He is know as leader leo in our house as Leo is a family name, there are loads of them around

Tee-shock for me, but I'm a Nordie ;)

But are you saying three in an English way, or more tree like Bertie. Bertie is a former tee shock.

Thee shock. I am from the Republic of Ireland. Really happy someone is interested in getting it right.

PS It means leader in Irish.

Thee-shuck. Definitely a soft t

Tea shock. Interested to hear where those of you who say tee shook are from in Ireland?

It’s not a hard ‘t’, it’s more like ‘THEE-shuck’ though the first syllable is a diphthong, really. Second in command is ‘THAW -nish- thuh’.

Munster, @OkPedro.

Sitting around in Munster, two from Ulster, trying to work out how we say it!

Connemara.