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I (an Irish person) wouldn't pronounce Saoirse as "seersha", more like "sayr-sha". And in Ireland the pronouncation of the name is pretty well understood. Would

• sib 9y ago
  That's an interesting example, given that there are plenty of people who pronounce our former President's name to rhyme with "rack"...
• captainmuon 9y ago
  To be honest, I just copied that from some other site, because I can never remember how to pronounce that name. I guess I would just spell out names the given audience is likely to mispronounce - although you could argue to do it with every name, like one newspaper always mentions who a person is, no matter how famous ("bla bla, Donald Trump, president of the United States, bla bla Joe Schmoe, plumber from Virgina")