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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how do you pronounce that first name? good God![/quote]

SOAR-sha

It is a common Irish name.  It's lovely.[/quote

Dp. I was told and heard it pronounced Sur-sha, rhymes with inertia.

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No, it only rhymes with inertia if you have a Dublin accent, like actress Saoirse Ronan.  My Northern Irish colleague pronounces it (his daughter's name) like SOAR-sha.  Other Irish people I know pronounce it more like SOAR-sha, too.  I can't render their accents phonetically in exactly the right way, but that's the closest I can get.  Imagine a little twist of an "ee" sound in the first syllable, but it sounds more like SOAR.[/quote]

[b]Are you saying Saoirse Ronan is saying her name wrong?  I don't think so!  Perhaps both pronouncations are correct, pp[/b]?[/quote]

Yes, both pronunciations are correct, but the way Saorse Ronan says it is not the most common way.  A PPP thought that there was only one way to say it because of what she'd heard the actress say.

A bit like Clara as either KLAR-ah or KLAIR-ah.[/quote]

[b]Well. The other pp said there was only the northern Irish way.[/b]  Clearly thete ate many words you can pronounce differently.  I was only pointing out another way.[/quote]

Your close reading skills are terrible.  [/quote]

Ha!  You are quoting ME.  So I would say you're reading skills are worse.[/quote]

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