Americans Try To Pronounce Traditional Irish Names

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Комментарии : 16 тыс.

@katewhelan4267 8 лет назад

Where my Irish squad at?

@EvoVFX 8 лет назад

Well mate

@keara700 8 лет назад

I am 89% Irish!!

@brigidrode 8 лет назад

half Irish boi

@oisinbarker5889 8 лет назад

Here why isn't my name here what about Oisín

@nikodeimos 8 лет назад

Right here! By the way they all sound ridiculous.

@PaolitaTheGreat 5 лет назад

English speaker: "there's no other way to pronounce this" Also English speaker: thought, tough, though

@MalakhiW 5 лет назад

Paola R facts 😂 but still

@giaphu2091 4 года назад

uh uh uh there is more Rough , cough , dough , fought , trough WHY NONE OF THEM RHYME ? English is broken

@pheo212 4 года назад

Gia Phu meanwhile pony and bologna rhyme

@tomsteinhardt4722 4 года назад

Lol. He refused the refuse.

@Rhh26 4 года назад

Just kinda here Not if pronounced correctly

@EleanorShellsdrop 4 года назад

The most common Irish name for Americans is “Sean”, and Americans don’t even know it’s Irish

@conalflood7895 3 года назад

They also say it's spelt wrong aha

@adhamhmacconchobhair7565 3 года назад

Exactly 😂 They don't know Shawn & Shaun comes from the Irish name Seán

@stevelowe2647 3 года назад

Americans are tantamount to Neanderthal though

@mars7612 3 года назад

Most Americans actually do know that Sean is Irish. Especially if their name is Sean. Americans tend to have names that match their family heritage/ancestry.

@windows-kx1of 3 года назад

What is the ì and é mean

@Katamoii 4 года назад

“Is Irish an actual language” probably has Irish ancestry too lol

@banana_man_101 4 года назад

99% chance

@eyan4329 3 года назад

Probably says they're Irish

@oliveranderson7264 3 года назад

She’s Jewish but yeah, a lot of Americans have some Irish ancestry

@Isometimesexplain 3 года назад

Yes Irish is its own language like deis mura duit

@brianmcg5161 3 года назад

I'm from Ireland

@pualamnusantara7903 5 лет назад

*"iRiSh iS a dIfFeReNt lAnGuAgE?"* Somebody please tell me if she was joking.

@1dlyrics363 4 года назад

I don't think she was

@halveyz7620 4 года назад

Da_Rainbow Kitty they are just cultural norms

@thetoxicsketch3331 4 года назад

@@logansanders9307 American is NOT a language

@robloccnmeme969 4 года назад

It is tho

@vampiregirlTVD 4 года назад

they do believe Europe is a country so there's that as well

@stevieboy666 5 лет назад

Where all my Irish people at who had to suffer this torture

@_Starzy 4 года назад

Right Here 🙋‍♀️ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@jackkirwan8146 4 года назад

They make my blood boil... 🇮🇪🇮🇪🤦‍♀️🙋

@siobhanofarrell4646 4 года назад

Right here - puke bucket in hand 🤮

@lornamurphy4041 4 года назад

@banana_man_101 4 года назад

here

@MCDreng 3 года назад

"There's no E in Owen-oh never mind" American education

@sevenseasonsofbrown 3 года назад

This needs more likes

@maeve476 3 года назад

literally lmao

@talieateste2405 3 года назад

i, an american, concur with your assessment. our educations system sucks ass.

@nataliana9089 3 года назад

Eoin

@bigslave6437 3 года назад

@@nataliana9089 Yeah what’s up?

@gerryadams3756 4 года назад

“In a way that you wouldn’t expect ..... raisin”

@hi-ln6ur 4 года назад

"Irish is a different language?" **angry irish grannies have entered the chat**

@theoofgamingchannel1243 4 года назад

Kookie Krumble lol with hurl and shlitor in hand

@petronella4883 4 года назад

Starts throwing potatoes

@compulsivecommenter990 4 года назад

Grainnes?

@petronella4883 4 года назад

@@compulsivecommenter990 yes grannies not grandma

@sineadmclennan3429 4 года назад

I speak for my gramma

@crystalcastlesgf 5 лет назад

*irish is a different language?* Im losing faith in humanity

@amelialikesyt_3927 5 лет назад

Me too

@crystalcastlesgf 5 лет назад

@@amelialikesyt_3927 😂

@Jp-gw3tu 5 лет назад

I mean us Scots and yous have gaelic

@diliff 5 лет назад

To be fair, I thought it was called Irish gaelic, not Irish.

@crystalcastlesgf 5 лет назад

@@Jp-gw3tu yep

@camillacolucci7576 3 года назад

American sees an accent: "oh oh we've got one of those strange symbols" Me an italian: wait what

@elisallacasuperlaca4195 3 года назад

Eccomi :)

@mmbleachtasty6121 3 года назад

Italian rarely even uses accent marks. The only commen word with an accent mark is è and sì

@dinnyspuds1245 3 года назад

Its called a fada it goes the opposite way see this is fada "é" and this is italian accent " ì"

@camillacolucci7576 3 года назад

@@mmbleachtasty6121 i hope you're kidding, we have plenty of words having an accent at the end. The main difference with other languages such as french or Spanish is that in italian there can't be any written accent in the middle of a word but just at the end

@mmbleachtasty6121 3 года назад

@@camillacolucci7576 I speak Italian as my first language and besides borrowed words there's really not alot of accent marks

@wildgg1871 3 года назад

As an irish person myself, this is comedy gold

@Emma-im7lg 2 года назад

what's your favourite tayto crisp flauvour?

@able_.e 2 года назад

@@Emma-im7lg prawn cocktail

@sevenseasonsofbrown Год назад

not really tbh

@ruadhankenealy2977 Месяц назад

😂😂😂ik right I'm Irish too

@kateryan5651 5 лет назад

“Irish is a different language” 😂 My Irish soul is dying

@airracer28 5 лет назад

Gaelic?

@QuokkaWaka 5 лет назад

@@airracer28 Nobody really calls it Gaelic, unless you count the Irish word for the Irish language (Gaeilge)

@benjaminomahony5669 5 лет назад

I'm 100 percent iris and this was pain

@focusontheroadthereisnothi6763 5 лет назад

Oh that's cool, i'm a 100% cornea.

@AB-jt4rs 5 лет назад

@@focusontheroadthereisnothi6763 i am 100% pupil!

@egalo-medina6859 8 лет назад

"Irish is a different language?" With some of these videos, I'm really starting to think that most of the Buzzfeed staff is fiercely uneducated

@tapnad8568 8 лет назад

I think fiercely is underestimated considering the probable iq of every single personnel of their staff.

@thearmoredidiot4828 8 лет назад

+Jarred Ocoyne Yeah, you can't expect much from Buzzfeed people.

@tapnad8568 8 лет назад

Very true

@MrEnterainment 8 лет назад

+Jarred Ocoyne I'm staring to think Americans aren't as smart as us Irish fellas ;) they should've tried to pronounce 'Deirbhile'

@joehennessy2166 8 лет назад

+Jarred Ocoyne I agree

@justinanderson2926 4 года назад

"Some of these letters are not being used..." Says native English speaker. ;-D

@rageagainstthemicrowave1313 3 года назад

English is such a bastard language of so many other ones. I'm learning Latin right now and it makes so much more consistent sense than English.

@that_girl4527 4 года назад

The sad thing is when I start talking in Irish to my family for instance on the phone my friends are like “uh why are you speaking like that lol” i had to explain to them I was talking irish and most of them said “wait, irish is a diffrent language!?!”

@adhamhmacconchobhair7565 3 года назад

Oh my god

@tealwashablemarker8886 3 года назад

they say “why are you speaking like that” though?? like they haven’t heard of different languages?! doesn’t surprise me with americans but

@beaukiff9 2 года назад

I just lost faith in americans in the first two seconds of this video and this comment.

@fekhu3961 Год назад

Tà, ní maith liom mo chairde ansin

@Blueturtle1 Год назад

@@FeachArAchoimreMoChainealI am so happy that I understood most of this

@sophiekeogh1111 6 лет назад

My Irish soul is broken "irish is a different language?" OML

@GDMcGurk 6 лет назад

ik the is a crack in my irish soul

@AB-jt4rs 6 лет назад

Your irish but you never new that it was a language?WHAT THE FREAK?

@hatkinson9026 6 лет назад

Sophie Keogh I know right... Even people that aren’t irish should know that

@dervy5935 6 лет назад

Sophie Keogh I was like could they be any more stupider 😂

@saoirsetheloverofcatsandco6717 6 лет назад

Sophie Keogh help my soul it's escaping to America with all this grammar needing people

@TheXmisterx88 7 лет назад

'Irish is a different language' I'M GOING TO SLAP SOMEONE

@sjg4388 7 лет назад

I understand them because many famous Irish authors, like Joyce, wrote their works in English and not many people speak Irish. Even Irish people don't speak Irish.

@siobhandornbierer9900 7 лет назад

김상윤 We have to learn Irish in school tho (I'm Irish but lived moved 4 years ago so I forgot all but chair)

@paigehawkins2556 6 лет назад

JON fivesevenseven its called Gaelic

@elliedevitt6663 6 лет назад

JON fivesevenseven omg

@matthewmcnerlin231 6 лет назад

I know. for so many of them claiming to be Irish (even though they cannot) you think they would know we have our known language

@shaalis 4 года назад

"MH" is a V sound. And it makes somewhat sense when you start to play with your own sounds. In th eUSA you also have names like "Leigh" or "Lee", same thing.

@arrandinsmore580 3 года назад

It's not always a V sound, depends on the vowels either side of it (usually)... Can be a W sound too

@adhamhmacconchobhair7565 3 года назад

It's not always a V sound is the H is a séimhú

@mars7612 3 года назад

How is "Lee" the same as "mh" making a V sound? Lee is "ee" making an E sound, "mh" is 2 consonants making a different consonant sound.

@georgiaaa6789 3 года назад

@@mars7612 I think she’s just pointing out examples of letters that can be pronounced differently. An American who sees the name Leigh written down would probably know to pronounce it Lee, they would know its not pronounced like neigh 🐴 with an L. In this case “gh” is pronounced “ee”, other examples are “mh” being pronounced as “v”

@The_Devil_Himself 3 года назад

MH is a V. The BH in Siobhán is a V, making it "Shevaun" I feel like that's alota work, just use the letter V.

@maebhjordan954 4 года назад

'Irish is a different language' ~deep breath in~

@eoinoconnor5783 Год назад

Just stay calm, keep it together… 🥴

@adamadamadam12 9 лет назад

"Irish is a different language?" GOD DAM EVEN A LOAF OF BREAD COULD FIGURE THAT OUT!

@usernameisntavailableitried 9 лет назад

its a dialect not a language your loaf of bread was wrong

@Vampirecutie447 9 лет назад

*whistles innocently* gosh, like the nerve of some people to not know that Irish is a different language.

@evankbs9949 9 лет назад

I'm from Ireland yes it is a laungage...in our school it's called irish laungage studies

@SamarkandChan 9 лет назад

Sadie Goulooze Nope, google it

@dannyosullivan9274 9 лет назад

+Sadie Goulooze Irish is a language

@moop.3549 5 лет назад

*they forgot Aoife.*

@johnfitzgerald1879 5 лет назад

E-Faa.

@conorbarron8113 5 лет назад

That’s my mums name

@finland4ever55 5 лет назад

Alfalfa

@sorchabergin6592 5 лет назад

And Sorcha

@bookwoman53 5 лет назад

Super Flute Aiofe, missing u always. Bad joke, I know. Sorry.

@jilliangiesbrecht2380 4 года назад

"Irish is a different language" oh I am so glad to be Canadian right now.

@katanah3195 4 года назад

Me too buddy.

@you-in5iy 2 года назад

Yeah like we don't have people like that here

@adammacdomhnail2014 2 года назад

@@you-in5iy Because yous actually have brains in Canada😂

@MrEyes-xh4bb 4 года назад

man, i love having an irish name "asslin? ayeslin? esslin? asian? how the hell do you pronounce that?"

@peachwood8884 4 года назад

Oh Aisling, I'm so sorry for all the people who have wronged you ( well your name.) Also, ARE YOU A TWOSETTER? :O

@MrEyes-xh4bb 4 года назад

ILiveForM U S I C it's spelled aislinn, but no i don't play violin lmao i get that question a lot

@peachwood8884 4 года назад

@@MrEyes-xh4bb Oh oops! I apologise. Your name is very beautiful Aislinn.

@MrEyes-xh4bb 4 года назад

ILiveForM U S I C thank you!

@shannon6108 4 года назад

They should have tried aoife 😂

@siobhansimpson4533 5 лет назад

I'M PISSED THAT THEY DIDN'T DO SIOBHAN, WHAT A CLASSIC, I ALWAYS GET SOME GOOD ONES!!!

@roisinthornton6898 5 лет назад

Ur name is so easy

@elissabailey1732 5 лет назад

I’ve heard people pronounce it like this Siyo-ba-han even tho I know it’s pronounced shivawn. 😂😂dont know how to type how it’s pronounced

@millie649 5 лет назад

That’s ma sisters name

@mkon29 5 лет назад

i had a girl from surinam come to my class for a while who was named siobhan so i learned how to pronounce it thankfully :)

@SoraAoi97 5 лет назад

This video came up when I was looking at the pronounciation of Siobhan....gotta say am disappointed it was not includee

@laila1989ism 6 лет назад

''Irish is a different language?'' Ouch

@katsu8666 6 лет назад

laila1989ism oof

@leylacummins7843 6 лет назад

Ikr

@williambrowne9063 6 лет назад

Yeah it stings a little bit

@kaitlynstaunton6515 6 лет назад

Same lol

@africanmansdadafricanmansd9167 6 лет назад

that hearts

@caoimhekavanagh25 3 года назад

As a Irish girl named Caoimhe (I pronounce it Queeva), who’s lived i. Ireland my whole life, this physically hurts my soul

@Kai88988 2 года назад

i need to know, did the irish not know how to spell in english? or is it a completely different language that is written in english? because the spelling makes no sense to me, like how is Naimh pronounced Nieve? it makes 0 sense in english

@AGLubang Год назад

@@Kai88988 Mutations is the main reason, which exists in all modern Celtic languages (like Welsh, Breton, etc.). Irish is a completely different language with its own orthography system. I am not Irish, so here is just what I observe: if a consonant follows with "h" (like the "mh"), mutation happens! (in the case of "m", into "v"/"w") Lastly, I think the vowels are also not pronounced as they are. For Caoimhe for example, the "aoi" is pronouned "ee" or "uee" for some reason. Maybe it's like English: "aoi" is pronounced as "A-yoy" in ancient times, but speakers changed while the spelling remained. I don't know for sure...

@Blueturtle1 Год назад

@@Kai88988are you ok in the head? Irish is a language that exists, and is written in the *LATIN ALPHABET* (there is no English alphabet). It had different rules just as say french or Spanish does. My god I lose faith more and more everyday

@seydk 4 года назад

"irish is a different language" I have lost all hope for America and we're 2 seconds in

@a70274 3 года назад

blame the natively english speakers who didnt take foreign language classes nor paid any attention in anything to do with non english subjects

@itac.2280 5 лет назад

"Irish is a different language...?" Oh boy off to a bad start already xD

@miadoyle5337 6 лет назад

Oh my god when she said "is Irish a different language?" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@alannahoneill4828 6 лет назад

Mia Doyle I was like no it's a coffee shop

@yelw2304 6 лет назад

Actually We speak galic here in Ireland

@doylersafl8728 6 лет назад

Alannah O Neill ooooohhhhhhhhh

@tannakota1846 6 лет назад

I know it's hard to believe for some, but to a person who is not Irish or exposed to the Irish culture, it can be a common misconception, I believe, to think Irish is simply a people and an accent. Again, it may seem obvious, but not necessarily for someone who, in their young life, never really had a reason to question otherwise. ❤️

@murph05xxx42 6 лет назад

TannaKota agghhhhhhh good Did ty do geography we learned everything even America 😬we probably know more than you do about your country 😬boom slan

@emiquetzalkoala4288 4 года назад

I am Italian, so even pronouncing "John" feels like forcing my mouth to produce an almost alien sound (yeah, our phonetics is unbelievably different!). After some years I've got used to how English sounds and to how the spelling often seems to be almost completely unrelated to the pronounciation, to the point that sometimes you just can't guess how to read a word unless someone tells you how it should be pronounced and this is so strange to me, coming from a Language where every single letter of the alphabet is always pronounced in the exact same way (except for a handful of combinations such as "gn", "gl", "ch"). Then I watch this video and now I know English is a walk in the park in comparison to Irish! I guessed every single name wrong. And in a couple of cases I know I would have never guessed the right pronounciation even if I tried 20 or 50 times. Quite fascinating.

@hollysarah4762 4 года назад

:Irish has a different language?” Me:🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️American at her finest

@helplessnarwhal3722 4 года назад

Trust me, we’re not all like this.

@hollysarah4762 3 года назад

@@ryt25 just like how I know in France they speak french, in Spain they speak Spanish🤦🏻‍♀️

@ArkaneGamingz 9 лет назад

an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas? Irish people know what I'm asking ;)

@emmadilemma00 9 лет назад

*Clicks 'Translate'* Haha guess I'm Irish ayy

@fayegurnett1449 9 лет назад

The most over-used phrase in primary school lmaooo

@icecloud1394 9 лет назад

Níl cead! Níl na daone san "chat" seo ró-cliste!

@minimooster7258 9 лет назад

No you may not.

@thing1249 9 лет назад

Níl

@emmxflynn 7 лет назад

"Irish is a language?" I was about to fuckin box her through the screen.

@adolfhipster6478 7 лет назад

Ahh the wrath of an angry Irish woman.

@tashiwangdu4747 7 лет назад

is that an option ???

@arwen6584 7 лет назад

Emma Flynn yh it is

@tiffffffffx 7 лет назад

Emma Flynn Aw stop 😂

@sopsopopop7203 7 лет назад

Same l hate when that happens

@daililac 3 года назад

“oh no we’ve got one of those weird symbols “, dude it’s called a fada

@sevenseasonsofbrown 3 года назад

Its ironic... I dont think theres a fada in fada haha

@daililac 3 года назад

oh ok i’ll edit it

@Kai88988 2 года назад

but how are we meant to know that? to us these names sound made up. like how is Naimh pronounced as Nieve? it makes 0 sense in english and its plain wrong. unless this is from a completely different language that is written in english

@addisonbaker8211 2 года назад

@@Kai88988 That's cause it is

@oceandolores9440 4 года назад

I was laughing the whole time because I am irish and i felt so smart.

@tomsteinhardt4722 4 года назад

Lol. Sometimes I watch teaching English videos.

@rosypup9010 3 года назад

Same im irish to Lmao

@reallyeve1991 7 лет назад

I am Irish and it was so funny watching them try to pronounce Irish names😂😂

@MsVilma1970 7 лет назад

Eve O'Connell I'm not Irish but I live in Ireland and it's still quite amusing. 😁

@jackpearce3976 7 лет назад

Eve O'Connell same

@skits4life920 7 лет назад

Eve O'Connell same im from connacht

@ross1830 7 лет назад

Eve O'Connell same

@pattychrisjackeagan1304 7 лет назад

I'm from Donegal💚💚💚💚💚😃😃😃😃😃

@JackMMcMullan 6 лет назад

Being Irish and watching this made me want to jump off a cliff.

@oonapatricia4141 5 лет назад

yeah same

@roisinthornton6898 5 лет назад

Same

5 лет назад

I live in the States, and I am named after my great uncle, who was named after the Saint. I live with this *every day.* I've lost count of the number of times I've had this conversation: "is... roo-AD-han there?" It's pronounced like 'Roo-ahn.' "No it's not!" Ma'am, do you speak Gaelic? If not, then maybe *I'm* the one who knows how to say my name?

@kitvos2615 5 лет назад

To be fair, I’m learning Irish and I could not figure out the pronunciation of tadgh.

@Zvijezdjne05050 5 лет назад

Ur Irish n ur name is familija aleksandr

@sarahx9492 4 года назад

Póg mo thoin (kiss my butt in irish Uachtar reoite(ice cream) Gailge (irish) Here’s a irish name! Chloghda (clo-da) pronunciation Caoimhe (queeva)pronunciation Sóricha(sor-ic-a)pronunciation Here’s what ireland looks like!.... 🌧 🌧 🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧

@ManaSamaLover. 4 года назад

Aaaahh this is my fave content watching ppl say names i have said an heard a billion times

@siobhandoherty9494 6 лет назад

And all the yanks on st paddys day " im irish"!!!!! Every other day : " Irish is a language??"

@michaeldevlin6679 6 лет назад

I'm also Irish 🍀🍀🍀 #irishbudds

@PaleBluu 6 лет назад

Totally agree! I'm American, and I hate when other Americans tell me they're Irish.

@broadwaybaby1317 6 лет назад

siobhan doherty lol I feel you

@siobhandoherty9494 6 лет назад

PAULA BELLIARD omg thats so funny because I am Irish! And the language i study in school is called Irish! Yes our main language is English but parts of Ireland (Gaeltacht) speak irish!! The language is not ‘Gaelic’ it is Irish and is widely spoken.lmaooo

@siobhandoherty9494 6 лет назад

PAULA BELLIARD hahahhahahah

@caoimhebrowne466 5 лет назад

In Northern Ireland 'Caoimhe' is pronounced 'Keeva' but in the south it’s pronounced 'Kweeva'

@niallwallace7457 5 лет назад

I've heard a good few different pronunciations of my name, Irish and Gaelic pronunciation does mutate quite a bit in its travels from the Mizzen to the butt of Lewis; enough that people on Islay complain about BBC Alba using Stornoway Gaelic to the point of incomprehensibility.

@caoimhec6628 5 лет назад

Yes!! Finally Someone Who Knows! :)

@vincentmethinks 5 лет назад

THANK YOU

@lheajane 5 лет назад

This is my friend's sister's name. I pronounce that as Kaye-mee, and I feel soooo embarassed rn

@cerysxox 5 лет назад

Ya I’m from Cork and we say “Kweeva”

@yourmumschickencurry2508 3 года назад

Tip for the Americans, a lot of the time an S is a Sh sound and mh is a th or v sound

@stopmotionvideoer 4 года назад

Oh boy off to a great start - “Irish is a different language”.

@aoibheemilia9169 6 лет назад

This burned my Irish soul

@lukecooney9691 6 лет назад

Aoibhe Emilia they are fecking eejits

@celticfans_8874 6 лет назад

Same 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@bingbong5568 6 лет назад

Same. I was cringing so bad 🇮🇪🇮🇪

@Error-sy7uu 6 лет назад

Me too

@we-qs2vd 6 лет назад

Aoibhe Emilia honestly mood every time this is recommended to me!! my sister’s name is Caoimhe, let her live :(

@this_username_is_taken7004 5 лет назад

0:26 Ma'am, that _weird_ symbol is called a fada

@arnasarnas760 4 года назад

Yes it is

@drumclaypete 4 года назад

Fada meaning long, so lengthening/exaggerating the verb

@ruadhan6707 4 года назад

There is a Swedish person above by the name of Alexander Fooy who insists on calling the sineadh fada an accent mark, even though it doesn't mark accents.

@psCoolest.ginger 4 года назад

Tá

@peterkiraly1058 4 года назад

@@ruadhan6707 originally it does have the name "accent mark", although in Hungarian we don't use it to mark accents either. Here the accentuated syllable is fixed (always the first) and we use these marks the same way as Irish, to lengthen the vowels.

@markarthguard4356 4 года назад

Girl: Irish is a different language I SEE YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH

@rhiannonreilly921 5 лет назад

“Irish is a different language “ someone hold my beer I’m bout to swing a chair at someone😂👀 Mate these people are clueless mygodddd😴😴

@clarab7028 5 лет назад

I'm 10% Irish and can pronounce all of those names.

@halveyz7620 4 года назад

Clara B ur not Irish

@nathanburke420 4 года назад

Dia duit! Conas atà tu?

@r4t.t205 4 года назад

Honestly though

@spuddus183 4 года назад

Crazyanimal guy tá mé go maith

@John-dz6bm 9 лет назад

All my friends are like "Daithi and Tadgh, Roisin, Maeve" and I'm over here like "My names John..." XD

@charalee4446 9 лет назад

Same. Fucking Niamh, clionagh, Ronan and Ruairi. Most fucking Irish names ever. I'm just like, hi I'm Nathan Lee. No I'm not Asian I'm Irish.

@John-dz6bm 9 лет назад

Nathan Lee Hehe I'm John Jekaterina... I'm only 1/4 russin ffs =O

@ControlledChaosTNT 9 лет назад

I rarely hear Rhodes names and I am Irish

@charalee4446 9 лет назад

And I'm only 1/8 English :3

@DaraghFIFA4life 9 лет назад

I've no clue how Irish my name is "Daragh"

@gregh4284 Год назад

The actual sounds are pleasant to my ears but the visuals are like a bag of rocks.

@doireannlynch 4 года назад

Caoimhe is not even pronounced "Ceemha" ITS PRONOUNCED "CWEEBHA" "GRAINNE" HAS A FADA IN IT!SO ITS "GRÁINNE" EOGHAN IS MOSTLY SPELT AS "EOIN" Btw I know lots of people pronounce it different, it's just I've never heard of anyone spelling it other ways!dont be offended 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@RichterJonny 4 года назад

I know they pronounced caoimhe so weird 😂

@shannon6108 4 года назад

Caoimhe is pronounced two different ways my wee sister is call caoimhe we say it like keyva but my friend is called caoimhe pronounced kweva💚🤍🧡

@medrawdcoediog5628 4 года назад

In Russian this are Кыве and Гранья))

@caoimhenichualain8628 4 года назад

THANK YOUUU. I SAY CWEEBHA AND I WAS SO ANGRY THEY GOT IT WRONG

@codaimcgarry2918 3 года назад

Caoimhe Folan you can say it two ways keeva or kweeva

@charlottehankins9563 5 лет назад

Oh my god this absolutely kills me. I’m so sorry for all the Irish people who watched this, not all Americans are as uncultured as them.

@WeeBelle 5 лет назад

Thank goodness 😂😅

@ellaconnolly570 5 лет назад

That’s good to know. 😂

@elizabethlyons8539 4 года назад

She meant to say," not all Americans are as uncultured as THEY," not them. Some of us know grammar as well.

@LughLamhfhada0609 4 года назад

@Elizabeth Lyons Are you joking or do you just have terrible grammar?

@charlottehankins9563 4 года назад

Elizabeth Lyons I know what I said. Check yourself, Elizabeth.

@graceowen9561 6 лет назад

Any other Irish person get annoyed when they said Caoimhe was Keeva. For people who aren’t Irish, Caoimhe is pronounced Kweeva

@hannahbanana9040 6 лет назад

Grace Owen IKR!!! My best friend is called Caoimhe but everyone calls her Keeva!

@louisemurphy669 6 лет назад

YEAH I KNOW IT MAKES ME CRINGE!!

@Luubelaar 6 лет назад

I was told by a girl named Caoimhe that there's two ways to pronounce it, depending on what part of Ireland you're from. It's either kee-va or kwee-va. Considering it was her name, I took her word for it.

@conordavies3839 6 лет назад

Its keeva in the north lol queeva makes me cringe

@pinkitydrinkity4812 6 лет назад

Ikr its pronounced kweeva!

@milofitzpatrick5128 4 года назад

2:26 Well I'm sory iff our language is a bit different to English and just cuz it's different doesn't mean it wrong😤😤😤

@abbydabbydoo4067 4 года назад

Now we know that in Irish “mh” sounds like “v”

@servantofaeie1569 4 года назад

but it can also sound like w

@con_ant6032 4 года назад

And bh sounds v

@caesarvalorvmsheevpalpatin8755 4 года назад

@@con_ant6032 is that not bhf?

@con_ant6032 4 года назад

Aedrim I’m not sure, my sister’s name is Aoibhe, which is pronounced Eva. So I just assumed that bh=v from that

@caesarvalorvmsheevpalpatin8755 4 года назад

@@con_ant6032 Actually now that I think about it, bhí, the most common word in irish, is pronounced vee. So yeah you would be right. I'm just used to bh being prounounced as w in alot of words

@eilighbuckell7257 7 лет назад

My sister Niamh and I just watched this for a laugh, we both have Irish/Gaelic names. Well done America

@Noodles.99 6 лет назад

Ekat The Bear same ahahaha

@thomasodonoghue3239 6 лет назад

Ekat The Bear you mean gaeilige names unless you arent using munster irish

@yalilnasties_4296 6 лет назад

Ekat The Bear my friends name is niamh 😂

@rosepuker3068 6 лет назад

Ekat The Bear mine is saoirse and people say like sarsha and it manes me triggerd

@niamhx5451 6 лет назад

kelly m my name is niamh!!

@belfastrepeire8442 9 лет назад

OMG I'm Irish and did not actually even contemplate how difficult it would be for people outside Ireland to pronounce those haha, I just thought everyone could LOL. That was so funny :D

@bluue4507 9 лет назад

***** YH lol exept I'm Polish and I live in Ireland

@LpsAngelMusic 9 лет назад

Alicja Sparkle me too, I was born in Poland but I moved to Ireland when I was 1. Now I'm 11 ☺

@bluue4507 9 лет назад

LpsAngel Awesome!! Can you still speak Polish?

@emojimolly1901 9 лет назад

Same

@danielk9861 9 лет назад

***** i know right XD

@niamhwhelan7420 2 года назад

Ooh, I watch these videos to laugh and whenever my name (niamh) comes up they are so lost it's the funniest thing.

@hahahaahaha1602 4 года назад

They were all so confident in their answers🤦🏽‍♀️😂

@rachelmarie747 7 лет назад

I love the name Saoirse

@catherinelavin2434 7 лет назад

its my cousin name

@SaoirseK 7 лет назад

Thanks, I like it.

@sdx9621 7 лет назад

Rachel Marie hehe that my name

@SaoirseK 7 лет назад

***** "sir-sha" is how you would usually pronounce it. It's not difficult once you get used to it.

@reneeburger7550 7 лет назад

there was this cartoon character in secret of kells and she was like what you think of when you think of saoirshe

@st00pidlemon52 5 лет назад

I’m so upset, My name is Niamh. This gave me anxiety Literally every teacher says this to me .

@fightthefairy 4 года назад

Kaiyo Nightcore Niamhe is the only one I know how to pronounce straight away.

@yagirlneedachill 4 года назад

Oh dw about it I'm Irish and I have an Irish name unlike all the common Irish ones (it's ornaith pronounced or na) and all my teachers (who are Irish) get it wrong unless theyre an Irish teacher or are really good at guessing

@caramelpeacock5250 3 года назад

I'm literally so in love with name Niamh, but I don't want my child to suffer from people who can't grasp the spelling in America or any other country, so I might have to elope one day from everyone to Ireland just to call my daughter this gorgeous name

@theoofgamingchannel1243 4 года назад

Let me break it down Tai-g Rosheen Seer-sha Ke-va Owen Ma-raid Ni-v Graun-ya

@conalflood7895 3 года назад

In a way, we're all taigs

@bosnia7429 4 года назад

Why are people mad? They are very irregular for an English speaker, they are saying it how it would be in English.

@peadarruane6582 4 года назад

Its not the mispronunciation per se, its the attitude implied, that somehow the Irish are pronouncing this names incorrectly, because they don't follow English phonetics

@tealwashablemarker8886 3 года назад

I can tell you’re an American

@bosnia7429 3 года назад

@@tealwashablemarker8886 English

@paulaflanagan4871 7 лет назад

THIS IS KILLING MY IRISH SSSSOOOUUULLL

@usuallysilence1952 6 лет назад

Paula Flanagan I know right its so annoying that they have never heard these names

@ciaranwobodike941 6 лет назад

Paula Flanagan same here

@sydney6759 6 лет назад

they're american, do you really expect them to be educated on irish names?

@aaroweafer1931 6 лет назад

no but being irish it hurts hearing them

@HardcoreGamer499 9 лет назад

Honestly I'm Irish and I don't even know some of these

@Smokez360 9 лет назад

I am Irish. Seriously most of these are so common besides Mairéad and Roisín.

@sydburrus1077 9 лет назад

My name is Eoghan, and people here mispronounced my name till I got to secondary school. Cx

@TheIrishPC 9 лет назад

Smokez360 Róisín is fairly common too. I'm from Dublin and I know a few Róisíns.

@Smokez360 9 лет назад

TheIrishPC Ya I'm from Cork i suppose it's just less common down here because i only know of 1 Róisín.

@HardcoreGamer499 9 лет назад

Smokez360 I thought Roisín was pretty common. At least where I live

@miniki8296 4 года назад

I'm wheezing 😂

@cloudkevi 4 года назад

0:59 your narrator pronounced that wrong. It's not "Cee-va" it's "Cwee-vaa"

@matthewmccallion3311 4 года назад

You're right that in the southern dialects of Irish, it's pronounced "kwee-va", but in the Ulster dialect it's pronounced "kee-va"

@tehefangirltehe 3 года назад

I know two one prounouced kweeva one just keeva I think it’s your choice

@arrandinsmore580 3 года назад

We say "Cee-va" in Ulster

@sweetie9870 3 года назад

Its cee-va in certain counties but here in donegal its cwee-ca

@conalflood7895 3 года назад

Ngl cwee-va sounds like queef

@roisinmolloy6218 6 лет назад

Aparently my name is raisin 😂

@mr.moosetache3615 6 лет назад

Roisin Molloy poor roisin

@roisinmolloy6218 6 лет назад

MR. MooseTache dont you mean raisin

@gabbie7662 6 лет назад

Roisin Molloy 😂😂😂

@TheRedPandaQueen 6 лет назад

Awww thats ok, my name is Saoise

@nataliemartin5199 6 лет назад

Roisin Molloy 😂😂

@alexpatchell6954 6 лет назад

Omg I’m Irish and I’m cringing so hard rn

@patricknolan9606 6 лет назад

The person said Caoimhe wrong as well

@blueguy4726 6 лет назад

SuperAwesome Alex same

@kathleenharan8554 6 лет назад

Ikr like “ irish is a language??” Like what omg yeas i learn it in school everyday

@wiggleycowgames7815 6 лет назад

Ya,I really need more of this

@theweirdestchannelnightcor9019 6 лет назад

SuperAwesome Alex OMG yeah same 😂

@nathanlafferty1309 4 года назад

Her:”Taig” Me: *sweating profusely* Is someone gonna tell her?

@johnclyde5125 4 года назад

Lol Inside Northern Ireland jokes

@nathanlafferty1309 4 года назад

JC Music no really mate am Scottish

@johnclyde9868 4 года назад

KrisAjerFan1888 Lol we all get it anyway

@medrawdcoediog5628 4 года назад

Тыгь)

@jackdaly6860 4 года назад

When the lassie said “taig” a though ooooo shite 😂

@Jamie-wg5fz 7 лет назад

They never did the most popular one, Aoife (Eeefah) or siobhan (Shivon)

@oisinbarker5889 7 лет назад

ZE LOUD SAW Oisín (Usheen)

@siobhan8412 7 лет назад

Oisin Barker yeah thought theyd do siobhan lmao

@cammarc 7 лет назад

ZE LOUD SAW Or Séamus

@sugarberry2798 7 лет назад

ZE LOUD SAW yeah

@Platina_ 7 лет назад

ZE LOUD SAW I honestly love the name Aoife.

@Star2251999 9 лет назад

"Americans try to pronounce Arabic or Hebrew names"

@LordWellington15 9 лет назад

Star 1999 Y

@nadabarakat6899 9 лет назад

Star 1999 That's what I was thinking too!

@InfiniteLives8 9 лет назад

LordWellington15 Y NOT

@snyc42 9 лет назад

Arabic and Hebrew names are long and require you to use your throat a lot. Those are probably the hardest names to pronounce.

@MsDerangedJoker 9 лет назад

Chinese names :D

@vacey2623 3 года назад

There’s a few people in my class/school named some of these

@caoimhe2227 4 года назад

1:11 😂😂 you guessed better than my supply teachers

@izzieh9936 8 лет назад

"Irish is a different language?" Me- cue with the face palm 😂 Love the Irish way of spelling Neve/Niamh

@CoolGuy-kz2ti 8 лет назад

No pretty sure Neve is the American way of spelling Niamh not the other way around.

@oisinbarker5889 8 лет назад

I know my name is Oisín I also face palmed

@niamhcarden1301 7 лет назад

My names Niamh!!

@siveth8149 7 лет назад

Where was Eamonń?

@niamhfrances6156 7 лет назад

My name is Niamh :)

@sweetisobz 8 лет назад

I've had so many different spellings and pronunciations of my name!! I think my favourite, is a Starbucks spelling from a few weeks ago, Chiffon, I suddenly became fabric lol!! I must say, even with an Irish name myself, I did struggle with a few of these.

@MiSSiABLET 8 лет назад

Shiv-aw-n? That's how you pronounce Siobhan isn't it? I found some of these difficult but I thought somebody was going to get Niamh (I see it as a fairly common name because my sister is called Niamh)

@patriciawhelehan7632 8 лет назад

Omg I feel your pain I've been called Ain , Anne , Annie or when I was in America in Starbucks they spelt my name Anya 😂

@ichigoyume6664 8 лет назад

I have a principal with that name Siobhan is just the Irish way of spelling shivawn

@siobhanx4726 8 лет назад

Hahaha we have the same name Starbucks is so funby

@siobhanx4726 8 лет назад

+HeyitsAine ha that's my friends name took me a while and I'm Irish 😂😂

@dunmwarupreachan4567 Год назад

One of many reasons I try to study Gaelic. I am an American, but I like getting in touch with my ancestry.

@SwidnikLublin 3 года назад

“It’s one of those Special Characters i don’t know how to say” Ahh. Classic Americans

@alexhoulihan1176 8 лет назад

Caoimhe is pronounced qweeva not keeva

@HelloKitty25xox 8 лет назад

+Alex Houlihan i think it depends where you're from, I have friends that pronounce it both ways

@Clonmel86 8 лет назад

+Alex Houlihan It depends or what part of the country your in in the South East we say it as qweeva mainly but I've hear keeva aswell

@josephkeane8346 8 лет назад

+Darán Antoin Are u from clare??? i am

@Clonmel86 8 лет назад

J_Da_Beast Tipperary

@josephkeane8346 8 лет назад

Darán Antoin What part cause I have cousins from Rossgrey (idk how to spell it)

@Ace2k12onxbox 9 лет назад

Seriously guys, Niamh was by far the easiest to pronounce. Or maybe I'm just saying that because I'm Irish. Anyone else here Irish? :D

@lochlainnmaguire9923 9 лет назад

Yes what county u from im from down

@jacksonic8626 9 лет назад

lochlainn Maguire castlewellan

@RavensSarora 9 лет назад

It's only easy because we're Irish so we know what it is.

@aaronayr5088 9 лет назад

Also, it's not keeva as it was pronounced, it's. Queeva

@annarees8160 9 лет назад

In my opinion, Naimh is by far one of the prettiest names I've ever heard, and I was shocked at how hard it was for them to pronounce it.

@brandonsucksatdriving1733 4 года назад

1:39 My sisters name is Mairead and I love watching people try to pronounce it

@roisinrankin80 3 года назад

The way they say my names if how my teacher pronounce it *flash backs*

@niamhmorrissey2187 5 лет назад

If you're not related to someone who has one of these names Are you really Irish?

@irelandaintreal2945 5 лет назад

DAMNNNNN

@ryanmccrave4287 5 лет назад

Lol I have a cousin named ciamhe and an uncle named Cìaràn

@thecia2294 5 лет назад

my name isn’t on here. it literally means dirt

@wednesday6853 5 лет назад

I’m 25% Irish so uhmm that doesn’t count

@mollyo2407 5 лет назад

haha im american but some of my cousins are roisín, ciarán, and cian, and my foster cousin is dáithí. some are normal though like laura and eliza even though they all live in ireland

@mayaxx1813 7 лет назад

who lives in ireland hands up because I LIVE IN IRELAND ;D

@garymichael5591 7 лет назад

I'm putting my hands up. Can you see?...CAN. YOU. SEE.

@samcleary5719 7 лет назад

Maja Wojciechowska Yea Im from Dublin but I live in Wicklow

@ainehurley5177 7 лет назад

cork city ;)

@insanegaming9464 7 лет назад

Maja Wojciechowska KILKENNY 4 LIFE

@ciandarcy7568 7 лет назад

🙋🏼‍♂️

@morgan7 4 года назад

“Uh oh, one of those weird symbols!” An accent?

@sevenseasonsofbrown 3 года назад

a fada

@homiemagenta Год назад

The first one was so easy for me. I have a friend named tadgh

@audieh 8 лет назад

I'd love to hear them try to pronounce Icelandic names. I'd laugh as they struggled to pronounce names like Sigríður or Þór. (I know there are other Nordic countries with hard names, but I'm most familiar with Icelandic names)

@kwt890 8 лет назад

+Auddie GH I wiped my screen

@dabadeeb1818 8 лет назад

+Kyle Taylor same

@audieh 8 лет назад

***** true

@welcometomylife212 8 лет назад

+Max Arnarson I went to Eyjafjallajökull last year! It was amazing! I'm from the UK :)

@jameschurch2441 8 лет назад

+Auddie GH Icelandic has the strangest words to foreigners, but i really want to learn it

@leahobrien2829 8 лет назад

I'm from Ireland I'm sorry but I'm cracking up right know

@Martinoxley 8 лет назад

+Leah O'Brien is that craic - ing? :)

@smoothordinator9529 8 лет назад

+Leah O'Brien ikr, it's Kwee-va, not kee-va. Yanks, right?

@alexgodson4176 8 лет назад

+Leah O'Brien An féidir leat labhairt ar aon hÉireann

@AleixaMsp 8 лет назад

+Leah O'Brien Sammeee like My god..ooo My names really tara and half my family says it like Tar-ea Tar-a -Tai-r-ea when really its just Ta-ra

@emmalouise2039 8 лет назад

+Leah O'Brien ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

@phylk4683 6 месяцев назад

It’s great to see Irish culture and identity getting air time - thank you. Eilis is also an Irish name which has become more popular because of Billie Eilis - there’s fadas in Eilis too so it’s authentically spelt Éilís

@Abby-pb1kf 4 года назад

I only found out a few years ago (I’m 13) that Ireland has a different language, never got taught it (I’m from NewZealand) I actually found out when an Irish Singing group was singing an Irish song then was in my RU-vid recommenced so I did my research and I was shook.

@peepeepoopoo2397 6 лет назад

‘Raisin’ LOL

@kimberlybenitezvivas746 6 лет назад

Cora I'm going to name my child Raisin. LMFAO jk.

@johnmcdonagh4270 6 лет назад

Lol

@billyrooney5628 6 лет назад

i was thinking the same!!!

@redpandagames9918 6 лет назад

I AM NOW CALLED RAISIN THEN

@mercycolon771 6 лет назад

Is that a hair on your screen ? YOUR PROFILE PICTURE 😭😭😂💛

@emilybrennan1220 6 лет назад

I’m Irish ☘️ And I knew all these 😂 I WAS SCREAMING TO THE SCREENNN 😂

@haileyhoran1584 6 лет назад

Emmers OMG SAMEEEE LIKE WHEN HE SAID RAISIN I WAS LIKE I GIVE UP

@haileyhoran1584 6 лет назад

Emmers OMG SAMEEEE LIKE WHEN HE SAID RAISIN I WAS LIKE I GIVE UP

@medinaandhannah7295 6 лет назад

Same

@aoifederidder7686 6 лет назад

I disliked cuz of course u knew them because sir I or somebody was saying it

@conorq4611 6 лет назад

Emmers but you have to admit irish is a weird language. P.S. I'm irish too.

@Alyssa-qc2it 3 года назад

What is that weird symbol? 🤣🤣 all the junior infants be like hahahah.

@DundalkFanTV 4 года назад

1:02 even the narrator says it wrong😂😂

@gracieobrien1373 6 лет назад

My poor Irish soul has been cremated. I think almost all of these names are assigned to one of my relatives 😂 Literally Niamh is my sisters name

@lucygraham3573 6 лет назад

Gracie O'Brien niamh is sooooooo popular in Scotland I know like eight niamhs

@niamhmurray7864 6 лет назад

My name 😂

@xo801 6 лет назад

niamh's pretty usual in england too, i think most people know ay least one niamh

@tlaprotege1364 6 лет назад

Niamh Murray my daughter's name is Nieve Murray!!!! That's so funny to me to meet another Nieve Murray. I had to do the phonetic spelling in America.

@JudePayet 5 лет назад

Gracie O'Brien right

@WaaDoku 9 лет назад

"Irish is a different language?" - OH MY GAAWWWDDD!! THIS IGNORANCE!!! IT'S UNBEARABLE!!

@lhaidar937 9 лет назад

和ァ独 Right?! I hated when that one guy at 2:26 said, "There is no other way to pronounce it. If they say it a different way, it's wrong." Um, there are other languages in the world besides English, you know. -_-

@mollyocallaghan5065 9 лет назад

Yeah,also when that girl said the fada was a weird symbol I'd like to see them try an Irish class

@YellawayHD 9 лет назад

French really isn't that hard, apparently polish is one of the hardest languages using the latin alphabet. Basque is apparently also difficult.

@WaaDoku 9 лет назад

L Haidar I feel like the lack of American English variants (and please tell me if I'm wrong) and the "American pride" are factors that lead people to not appreciate language diversity. Cause if they would care, those hundreds of Native American languages wouldn't be close to extinction. And maybe if they had a more positive attitude about Native American culture and so on, every American would learn a bit of a Native American language that used to be spoken in their area before Westerners came to the New World. Pro side though: many Americans learn at least a bit Spanish. So that's a start.

@WaaDoku 9 лет назад

Molly O Callaghan Was fada that diacritic?