Saoirse Ronan wears a sign telling you how to pronounce her name

She's so irish! you could tell Ellen and the audience were totally lost when she was telling that story. if she had told it on graham norton it would have killed!

graham's the best at interacting with his guests. ellen just sat there

She seemed (rightfully) pissed when Ellen said, "We learned so much about you in that story."

Like... yes? It's an interview?

ellen can be sooooo shady

i was even pissed at that comment. what a dick.

that was so rude smh

So irish, I love it!

I can't watch the video cause i'm at work, how do you pronounce it?

SUR-SHA

underwhelming tbh

I guess she says it sur-sha? The Saoirses I've known say it seer-sha though.

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sursha

Unpopular opinion but I Could Never Be Your Woman is such a fantastic and adorable movie. Please give it a chance! I loved it so much so that I almost forgot she was Bri... NO.

I remember being shocked she was actually Irish because her American accent was so good in that movie as an 11 year old

I do remember thinking it was really adorable

imo it was a liiiiitle too cutesy but I still loved it. And she was precious in it.

I'm gonna give this idea to my sister since she named her daughter Niamh.

Is it said like Nee-Ham?

It's said neev or nev, like Neve Campbell.

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Pronounced like Neeve. I know it's definitely more popular in the UK but in Canada not so much lol.

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aw, I love that name.

I used to live with a Niamh!!!!

she will always be She-Sha to me

She-Sha will never not be funny

He fucks up Saoirse's name but then pronounces Alicia Vikander's name correctly right after lmfao

weird i pronounce her name Alice-ia in my head but he pronounced it AlEcia. I've also heard it pronounced aleesha

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lmao this is great.

At least he made an attempt, tbh...He could have been like "SayRose"

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Sounds like PT "chicha" to me, which is a kid's way of saying meat.

omg lool

To be fair, he should've been briefed on how to say it beforehand or had it spelled phonetically underneath or something.

I was also very surprised at how you pronounce Siobhán. Sha-Von.

it's more shuh-von or sh-vonne than sha-von which reads like 'shahvon' lmao we call my bff sigh-obe-han just to troll her

OMG I am so glad you posted this, I have always wondered how to say this name

I know how to pronounce that name thanks to Ringer. RIP SMG's resurgence on the CW.

same lol

same...RIP Ringer

lol same here

yeah the phonetic pronunciation in my head is so better than actual pronunciation.

It will always be SO-bon to me in my head lol

lol I used to have a friend named Siobhán and I never even though about it since I'd just heard her name, but every time I saw her name on paper it was like a major mind-fuck.

i had someone with this name in my primary school so i grew up knowing how to say it so i always giggle when people pronounce it phonetically

This was so effing helpful:

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lol me too

Tropical Popical getting that promo.

http://www.tropicalpopical.com/

She forgot the website!

their twitter/fb is full of clips and mentions of this. they are loving the free promo

i loved how ellen was like - you are getting your nails for free now!
and her look was all - bitch i already am

lol that's exactly what i thought

lmaooo

Ellen is such a bitch... you can tell she got annoyed because her story was 'too long'.
I know Saiorse won't have a big chance of winning, but I'm glad she's getting recognition at least, because she's a great actress!

I know I thought it was a super cute story, IDK why she was so grouchy about it

seriously, why was she pressed? it was a cute story & in an adorable irish accent, no less

Ronan and Larson are the top contenders this year, so far.

Late reply but I would love Brie to win. She deserved so much more recognition after Short Term 12

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Seriously and Saiorse picked up on it so quickly and looked embarrassed and down. Damn Ellen. Still better than Jimmy Fallon interrupting every guest telling him he LOVES THEM!

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she made saoirse regret saying it for no reason

ikr, she looked like 'alright already'

Ellen is 100% over this gig. Every interview I've seen the last couple of years, I feel like she's being-- just meh about everything and everyone--

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ellen has been the worst for a while now

i fucking hate ellen

Yeah that seemed *really* unprofessional for a talk show host, it came across like she was sick of hearing her guests story and wanted her to wrap it up already, but surely as the host your most important job is to act interested in your guests, even if you secretly find them boring or whatever

i love her name, now that i know how to say it. when hanna came out i would always say ~say-or-see lol she's so beautiful also <3

Dennis Quaid announcing her GG nomination had me cackling.

But also, at what point can she stop being asked about how to pronounce her name and/or feel obligated to talk about how to pronounce it when it's literally been almost a decade since she has been in the public eye and if people haven't gotten it by now, I'd give up on it ever happening.

Right? I feel like every time she has a movie out, this is the main topic of conversation for all of her press for it. Every single time. Feel bad for the girl, it's got to be tiresome and annoying at this point.

Ikr, she keeps a pretty good attitude about it

She's had a career for almost 10 years, so I don't understand why people can't Google her name and figure out how to pronounce it. It's not that difficult.

mte, she must be so irritated that she's still talking about that

idk ive always known her name, seen it written, but i rarely see her promo stuff

well it's not like she's an a lister

This, why do people act like she is a new comer? She was nominated for an Oscar when she like 13 for Atonement. And she was great in Hanna. Why do they make her feel so uncomfortable?

ONTD, do people mispronounce your name?

NO ONE knows how to pronounce my last name. It's similar to a common last name, so people seem to assume that the common name is my last name and I just don't know how to spell it. I had a professor in college who seriously pulled me aside and asked my why I never spelled my name "correctly".

omg what an asshole. What did you say to him??

At first I thought she was joking, then I said, "That's how you spell my last name, it's on the class registration with that spelling." Then she tried to tell me that it was written wrong on the registration sheet but that name was used across the whole system and I know it was written correctly in my other classes so she was obviously just trying to cover her ass.

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people always pronouce my last name as "blue." i had a school counselor who knew me pretty well once, and his ass still called me, "ms. blue." ffs, if you're not going to get my name right, just call me "hey you" or call me by my first name.

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my name is regina & I had a college prof ask for pronunciations/alternate names on the first day of the semester. when he got to my name he went with the saskatchewan pronunciation (rhymes with vagina) and I was like NO it's the catholic pronunciation not the canadian or the latin! & I melted into my seat.

People are always mispronouncing my name, or rather I should say Americans because plenty of foreign people can say it perfectly even though it's not common in their countries either. My first name is French and my last name is a rare Scottish one so I'm basically used to hearing people butcher both.

my first name is easy as fuck (it's just spelled the scandinavian way i guess lmao) but my last name is mispronounced and mispelled multiple times a day. i've given the fuck up. my grandpa anglicized it and everything but it didn't help. i have friends who i've known for over a decade and they still don't pronounce it properly.

lmao this question. unless you're haitian or french, there's no way in hell anyone can pronounce my name. i go by a nickname, but people struggle with that too like damn i can't catch a break.

My maiden name was a pain in the ass to pronounce... And so is my married name, albeit prettier.

I have a super easy last name, pronounced like it's spelled, and people still---- pretty sure people only get like 2 or 3 letters in when they read and then just go full fuck it or something.

yep I had one girl actually have the cheek to tell me that I was the one pronouncing my own name wrong!

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My last name is ALWAYS pronounced wrong. I don't even correct people anymore.

no but people always call me Alex as if they can just give me a fucking nickname. I'M ALEXIS GODDAMNIT.

my name is in the 20 top most popular names of the 90s and very white and yet people can't pronounce it.

People mispronounce both my names and it's so annoying. The worst to me though is when I've told someone multiple times how to say my name and they still don't get it.

wtf and this was a college professor/? some of them are so fucking rude and ignorant.

i have a pretty common chinese last name which is pronounced differently in english so in elementary school, i would have this teacher who would pronounce it incorrectly despite my correcting her. she would repeat and continue to call my last name by what she says is correct phonetics on purpose and she told me that my mom should have spelled my last name right.

i also have a pretty common american name but for some reason ppl fuck it up w/ the spelling or i would have ppl call out the male version of that name.

My name is Merran and nobody remembers it so they call me Mary, Marion or something like that.

I work with kids so if they say any name beginning with M, I know they're talking to me :)

ppl always mispronounce my name, both first and last. my last name is a color with an e added on at the end but it's silent, and my first name gets butchered cuz it's ~foreign, rmfe.

Everyone mispronounces my last name, to the point where I always spell it out if I say it over the phone, like for an order or something. I was sure they'd say it wrong at my university graduation and my family would get embarrassed, but the dean said it right and I was like YASSSS.

the amount of people who cannot say 'gillian' is startling

She's been around for like 10 years now how can people (in the industry) not say her name yet.

bc nobody cared until now

I was gonna say - she's been around, but after Lovely Bones who was checking for ha?

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shes likable and all but lol omg i hate when someone is telling you a story and gives you every little detail of shit that has little to do with the main point of their story. ellen had a face like wrap it the fuck up.

My friend Cam does that and I literally just black out until he gets to the end of the story.

lol i have a friend that is TERRIBLE for that, he'll start off by saying he was playing some video game and give us every detail about the game before saying he like tripped at the store that day or something

lmao my mom does that so much

ugh my mum does it all the time, she adds the most unrelated stuff to her stories and I always get lost

lmao, something my mom does

I do this, and my friends say I "talk in a tree" because I branch out so much-- lmao

lmao i love that phrase

aw, thats so clever and cute

Lol in spanish we say something similar, it would roughly translate to going away (as in leaving the main issue) through the branches.

I didn't think her story was too rambly but my bf does that all the fucking time, it drives me bonkers. Like get to the point (he gets it from his parents so when we visit them I am hell. a very nice hell)

My mom does this and I always have to call her out because I can't be listening to a story for two fucking hours like that.

lol, i have a friend who does but worse b/c there's no point to her story and she takes ages to finish it.

saoRISE!!!!

i'm so happy she's still as talented as she was when she was a kid tbh, precocious child stars aren't always so lucky. lookin @ you abigail breslin