Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...
A Starbucks in Cork City has a cheat sheet to help employees pronounce and spell Irish names. Staff at a Starbucks store on Prince's Street in Cork City have written out an extensive list of Irish ...
How do you pronounce the name Tadhg? Or Siobhan? On St. Patrick’s Day, News 12 producers wanted to see if the morning anchors could pronounce some of the most popular Irish names. So, they gave it a ...
According to Preply ‘Aoife’ is the most commonly mispronounced Irish girl name, with people searching for the correct pronunciation 62,700 times each month. ‘Sean’ is the most commonly mispronounced ...
The Merriam-Webster account on X, known for snappier and snarkier posts than are usually associated with dictionary publishers, recently managed to provoke some ire from the Irish by answering its own ...
President Biden on Friday was photographed holding cheat cards with pictures of Irish officials — accompanied with prompts on how to pronounce their names. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief exposed ...