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Marijn | 23:55 Sun 05th Feb 2012 | Film, Media & TV
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How do you pronounce her first name? (I didn't understand the strange letters on Wikipedia that are supposed to explain how it's pronounced).
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SAW eee ka
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No "X" then? There was an "X" in the pronunciation of her name. I didn't understand the backward "E"s. Thanks for your answer.
It's relative though. Some people pronounce Sarah as SAHrah, others Sair (to rhyme with air) a.
If you click on the pronunciation letters on Wikipedia, it gives you a table of how to pronounce each letter, so you get s-o-r-ee-ch-a (x=ch, which is pronounced with a 'k' sound.)

Not long ago, I saw an Irish stand-up comedian whose first name was Caimh - it's pronounced 'queeve', apparently.
You'll get different answers because it depends where I Ire;land you're from how you would exactly pronounce it- i wqould say it more as

Sur-ai-khaaa- with the stress being on the end and the ai a very quick sound.
Sorry for the typos, bad head day:(
I've heard it two ways, Irish mum at school calls her daughter sore-sha and SIL in Dublin has a friend calle sore-ka. Must be a regional pronunciation.
Thinking about it, I've also heard pronounced sir-sha.
My MIL is Irish, and when we were expecting out third daughter, she came out with a bewlidering variety of Gaelic names which I have never heard of, before or since.

My wife and i both liked Siobahn, but thought about the constant pronunciation questions our daughter would have to live with, so she is Charlotte - and everyone calls her Charlee.

BTW Siobahn is pronounced 'Shiv-awn' if anyone was not sure.
So you didn't settle on Caoimhe then Andy? I once had an Irish Wolfhound called that. In the end , I gave up spelling it out every time I spoke to the vet and told him to put 'Keeva', as it is pronounced, on her records .
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Howard's link was particularly helpful. Thank you ALL very much for your answers. :-)
I always thought it was Sore-sha

I like the name Niamh too.
i was once told it was zorrika by a girl, but then sorcha corrected her and said that the 'ik' sound was just the irish accent - the roll of the 'rrr' - like an american would also - and it was actually just sorka
Sear cha
Dont forget Sin ead :-)
I'd put Caoimhe down as a name I like - but not in my own family.
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