Irish pronunciation

[Dilbertian]

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

T shock

But that simply isn’t how any Irish person would pronounce it, @Superlooper. The emphases are wrong, apart from anything else.

Superlooper that isn’t right, might explain why the UK newsreaders struggle and sometimes run with T shirt .

Tee-shuck

I am Irish and that's how I say it

It's nothing like T shirt though.

I wouldn't be very good at Mandarin so.

T-shock
Emphasis on the T

Like.... tar isteach.... Tar ish-tock

I'm in munster. I've never heard it pronounced t-shook it's incorrect

Tea-shuck or Tea-shock

Also depends on how you pronounce tea. If you have a northern accent it's almost tee ee. Wee cuppa tee ee.
Leo is more straightforward, and migglede.

T - shock

@eggandonion 😂
Simon is doing a great job for a teenager

Tee shuck

Thee-shock round my way. Or ‘Jesus You’d know Leo was a Doctor’

@Superlooper That’s how I pronounce it too
I’m from Dublin

@Superlooper - me too, fgs there’s no th sound, wtaf are people on about? My Irish was terrible though. Only got a D in the leaving

If you say T shock that is perfectly fine and everyone will know what you’re on about.

Yes, definitely a softer T. Your tongue is further forward, almost under your front teeth on the first syllable.

@Whitling I think, as a PP wrote, that there are probably regional differences. I don't know anyone who pronounces the second syllable as "shuk", more like shock as in "siopa". I agree with the PP comparing the t sound to the Thames pronunciation.

How are you pronouncing Thames? I'd say Thames Television with the same T. (Ulster pronunciation)

But Thames is pronounced ‘Tems’...?

Like Tempt? I don't have a soft T!

Thailand seems to be pronounced Thighland by some Munster people.

The as in Theodore
Shuh rhymes with huh

But I don't say Thames like Theo... that's a Th, not a T! (I have th in my name, so I can say th, as opposed to dis and dat). We need phonetics!

www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/taoiseach

The Munster link posted by @JaneJeffer is roughly how I — and any other speakers of Munster Irish I know — say it.

No native speaker of any dialect I’ve ever come across says ‘teashock.’

I'd say it like the Ulster one in the link, I think! But end up bewildered trying to say something 'normally'.
An attempt by a non Irish speaker is appreciated though! We're trying to discover the Ulster Scots version!