Cillian Murphy says his name
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- Cillian Murphy demonstrates how to pronounce his name. Many thanks to @pradabackpack1 the world's leading source of quality Cillian content for this footage. Watch the whole video on their channel: • CILLIAN MURPHY NAMED A... and treat them nice with lots of likes and subscribes!!!
Cillian is Irish. He was born to Irish parents in Cork, Ireland. He grew up near Cork, Ireland, graduating from Presentation Brothers College.
Cillian and Murphy are both names of Irish origin.
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Wow I never knew the Murphy was silent 🤯
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Don´t be killy!
It isn't, it's pronounced .
Lmao shut up😂😂😂😂why is this so funny@@AutomticHeart
Even after years finding out how his name is pronounced, my brain automatically reads it with an “S”
it sounds so terrible with "S"
Dont be a "Silliyan", be a "Killian" to our Cillian.
@@hoven-lh8wq It's awful, can't understand how some people imagine it to be pronounced as an S. Doesn't make any sense to me.
@@tonmoymukherjee6951 Dammit, I still pronounced it with an "s" in your sentence, I'm a failure.
@@OverJam52Makes perfect sense for a native English speaker. In English most words that start with "ci" use the S sound for the C. Of course it's an Irish name so standard English pronunciation doesn't apply. But most people aren't going to know that just by looking at the name on writing.
Cillian "The Sicilian" Murphy!
I thought that dude was italian. He has a very italian face 😂 i was suprised he was irish 😂
@@mathewvanostin7118 LOL I don't think you've met many Italians then 😂😂😂 he looks very irish
He is such a sweet turtoise
🐢
BrO WhAt
*Tortoise
Kylian Mpaypal
All that build up just to learn I've been pronouncing it wrong all this time
welp, in my class there's some dude named cylian, like the s sound
The suspense 🎉
Saaaaame!! 😪😫
What a killy billy you are
That's the whole point of the build up
So Kill Bill actually stands for Cillian William? You never stop learning
😂
GOLD
Why didnt this blow up yet lmao
Makes sense 💀
My name is killian William so I actually am kill bill
I genuinely think that if it weren’t for the Boston basketball team insisting we mispronounce Celtic, American awareness of how to say Cillian’s name would be tremendously different.
I say it with a K sound 😂😂 it makes everyone mad at me but IDC 🤷♀️
Or the word civilian lol
THIS.
I don’t think a Ce word’s pronunciation is going to have a ton of influence over a Ci word when there’s so many other Ci words that start with an S sound. Cillian is a lot less popular than Killian in the states, so people probably just thought it was different from Killian, which leads to Sillian. Otherwise there’d be no need to differentiate from Killian in the states. I’m not saying it’s right, just the pronunciation of Celtic isn’t what would’ve caused that.
I thought it was “Sillian”, but have always pronounced “Celtic” as “Keltic”, and I think it’s because C followed by E makes me think of a hard ‘kuh’ sound, while C followed by I makes me think ‘sss’
But I think all us American/British/Australian-English speakers should go a little easier on ourselves, because the rules of English are already so confusing, what are we supposed to apply to other languages??
Bro's handsome af
No lies detected ✅
RIP to those who were pronouncing it “Silly Anne”
😂
I just called him "that cheek bone dude" and then when I stumbled across Mads Mikkelsen I couldn't pronounce either name so I just called them Irish cheek bones and Danish cheek bones
@@dexterwestin3747them middle aged European cheekbone dudes
Guilty! Lol
Me...smh
In Irish names, the "C" is always a hard "K" sound, cf. Celtic and Celts. The form "Killian" with a K is also used. St. Killian was 7th century Irish bishop who preached in Germany.
☝️This
Irish doesn't have the letter K in the alphabet, so C is used as a K
Interesting. I have a cousin named Killian which I believe us Americans are more used to.
Boston Keltics
I know some Kilians in Austria.
me who’s been pronouncing Celtics with an S 💀
As a Northern Irish person this is like cultural shock realising that people don't know how to pronounce his name
now you know how everyone of the 4 billion people from African and Asian countries feels about people not knowing how to pronounce their names 😄
@yukzula
Man, I'm Australian but I just happen to have a little knowledge of Gaelic pronunciations and when non-Irish/non-Scots English speakers give their kids Gaelic names they don't know how to pronounce, I die a little inside.
I once had a woman named Siobhan (yes, without the accent on the a, fine, whatever let it slide) insist to me that her name was pronounced "See-o-bahn". Her own name. She didn't know how to prononuce her own name.
The psychic anguish I felt in that moment was indescribable.
@@TheRealMycanthrope ok that's extreme. I wrote a comment in another post on this video about the name Siobhan. The fact that anyone would not know how to pronounce their own name is actually quite sad, it's a bit like, not knowing who you are.
i live in canada and even i find it weird 😂
@@ebbyc1817however that Siobhan pronounced her name, is how to pronounce her name. That's what she has grown up with, and names to change over time. Look at the name Featherstonehaugh, for example!
And all this time I've been pronouncing it Ryker
As an Irish person it kind of blew my mind to realise that this is an unusual and exotic name in the States and that people were unsure of how to pronounce it. Here its as common as being called Peter or David and finding out its not the same in America was surprising to me for some reason haha
Yeah it’s not like his name is Fionnbarr or Caoimhin
I lived in Ireland for about a year when I was a kid, don't think I met a single Cillian. Just sharing an anecdote.
As a Scottish person I was surprised to find that in America Kieran is a girl's name. Strange upside-down place it is.
@@shaddaboop7998 as an American I've only ever met guys named Kieran. 🤷♂️
@@sam8404 Had a long term relationship with an American that involved visiting there. It was popular in the 2000s to call girls Kieran and there were quite a few of them around. Maybe a regional thing then? Still felt so wrong to me lol
im so proud that i knew it was cillian with a K sound all along
Can't relate
Same! 🎉
@@bengrahl8402
So, you thought it was pronounced "Sillian" 😂
the Germans knew. they always knew
@@Paul-sl9zmI did too I used to call him Sillian a few years back
Gotta love when the ad you cant skip before the video is longer than the video itself
@dperl5640. I have come to really hate Verizon for that very reason.
I appreciate that you posted this on St. Patrick’s Day
Now we need another 13 second video where he pronounces his last name for people who have always been mispronouncing it.
WHAT
"Murr-fai"
PEOPLE MISPRONOUNCE MURPHY? HOW
@@boatsarescary226Maybe like "Murp-Hi" or "Murp-Hee"
@@Anton-wk8lv No, it’s Murr-fee
For those who couldn't hear, he said "Killing It"
Sounded like "Killigan".
I remember when most of the kids in the USA were surprised at how Hermione was pronounced upon seeing the first Harry Potter movie!
How do Americans prounace Hermione vs brits? In my country we prouncne "her me-yun" (exactly like heroine but add a M) but the Correct way is "her my-ni" am I right؟
@@Jaunty_jules I only know the correct way her-my-(long)o-nee. I just know there were a lot of interviews when the movie came out that the common British name is unknown in USA by young (and some older) Americans. So, when reading the book, they made something up that sounded good to them, but they were wrong.
The funny thing is I knew exactly how it is pronounced but I've rarely seen it written and I've never read Harry Potter. I know how to pronounce it because I learned the name from the sound, I heard it before I ever saw it.
@@Jaunty_jules The correct way is Her-my-oh-nee, (4 syllables)Its one of the Greek names like Chloe (klo-ee), Zoe (zo-ee, Penelope(pen-ell-oh-pee), Xanthe (zan-thee) etc that all end with that Ee sound at the end, other Greek origin words that work the same way are epitome, {ep-it-o-mee) hyperbole (hi-per-bo-lee)
Love this guy
R.I.P to all the silly-an murphys
you will be remembered
🤕😭
Everybody says they were pronouncing it Sillian, with an S, but my first instinct has always been to pronounce it Chillian.
For some reason that’s what I thought it was this whole time. At least since 28 days later
Same
By your name, I'm going to assume you're Romanian and I guess that's why you pronounced his name like that
@@mariapopa1890 Yes. I think we and the Italians are the only ones who pronounce it like this.
that's even worse
I can't believe I didn't realize this! We visited our family's hometown in Ireland and it was spelled Cilmichil (or something very close-it's been awhile) and I was amazed because my elder relatives always pronounced it "Kill-mi-hill." My sister and I'd been doing geneology and had it written wrong on all the documents. Nobody had ever explained about the "hard C pronunciation." Absolutely mesmerizing actor but my favorite role has been as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders-I could watch that over and over!
Not sure exactly what town you are talking about but many towns now have the anglicised 'Kill/Kil____' version of cill(church) or coill(woods) so this should generally avoid a lot of confusion. We generally refer to these towns by their anglicised version such as Kilkenny, Killarney, Killeagh etc. Perhaps you were talking about Kilmichael (Cill Mhichíl in Irish)? But again, we would generally use the anglicised version here unless perhaps you're from the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking areas of Ireland).
@@liam_flag the town is in County Clare and when we went in 2009 the sign outside of town had the name spelled like I wrote it or at least very similar but starting with a C. I've been looking thru photos trying to find a picture somewhere but so far no luck! Hope to visit again someday tho. Thx for the info - you live in a beautiful country!
@@Rose-ht3xc Is it Kilmihill? The Irish would be Cill Mhichíl (Church of St. Michael)
@@conorcrowley6256 Yes, that's the place...very beautiful little town!
DUDE IS MAJESTIC
Very appropriate name: He's absolutely Cillian it as an actor.
And making a Cillian doing it too!
He may be Cillian it as an actor, but you know what they say, what can go wrong will go wrong.. according to Murphy's law
I love the part where Heisenberg asks Oppenheimer to “SAY MY NAME” and then Oppenheimer explains about his Irish descent and then says “It’s killian Murphy” and for which Heisenberg says “you’re goddamn wrong!”!
That scene was intense, the one right before they nuked the Germans.
I remember this scene. Also loved the scene when, after creating the nuke, he said "Now I am become the danger".
@@_demoneyeah, and then he morbed all over the japanese
My favorite part was when Oppenheimer was like "it's oppenheim" and then oppenheimed all over the place
Nice effort.
He is such a beautiful man
always enjoy it when Thomas Shelby plays the iconic Cillian Murphy on tv
Man if I’m blessed enough to have another son, I’m gonna name him Cillian. Such a cool name
Spell it with a K or a Q. Trust me, you'll be doing your kid a favour
@@JishinimaTidehoshi even better, do both and name him Kqillian
@@trigfunctionLOL 😂
@@trigfunction Kqcillian?
Yeah
Cillian mbappe
My son's name is Eoin, another Irish name. It's pronounced "Owen" or more closely "Own," but his American teachers not only couldn't pronounce it, they wouldn't ask him how to pronounce it. So shy child that he was, I had to write notes to them at the beginning of each school year to tell them how to pronounce his name so they weren't calling him "Ian" or worse "Ee-oin" all year long. We moved back to Ireland when he was 14 and everyone knew how to spell and pronounce his name! My point is that people should ask the pronunciation of names they're not familiar with, and then make a point to pronounce them correctly out of respect.
lol
I was going to make some slick comment about how us American folks can't be trusted with stuff like that, and it hit me that when I was a kid I pronounced the author of Artemis Fowl THE EXACT SAME WAY 🥲
A lad named Eoin joined my work, no one could understand how it's pronounced so we all just call him Coin
@@keirbourne5323 why didn't you just ask? If a Mexican guy worked with you whose name was Juan would you pronounce the J? Irish names are the same, it's a different language.
Nah bruv, spell it how u want it to be pronounced, or live with how others pronounce it. Nobody got time to ask you how to say ur name differently than how u spelt it urself. U spelt it like that so deal with it lmao
Beautiful name ❤
However you pronounce his name, he needs an oscar nomination for Oppenheimer.
I love how proud he is to be Irish.
He and his wife recently returned to Ireland with their two boys, because
they realized that their sons were speaking with
an English accent. And they didn't like that at all.
So they returned to Ireland
so their sons would start talking with an Irish accent instead. 🇮🇪 🙂
please read on why he decided to move back to Ireland
@@Ciara1594 I respect that, at least he doesn't just bitch about England while doing nothing about keeping his own culture alive like a lot of Irish seem to do.
Tbh with you guys I thought he was an american actor😂😜 at first but later on I discovered that he was indeed irish. I was like whoa! Cool. Idk i assumed he was from the usa because his accent is very believable in his movies.
The dude that plays scarecrow Oppenheimer and the guy from peaky blinders is irish how cool is that. Well many americans have irish ancestry so yeah theres that
He just didn't shy away from admitting he is Irish... if that says proud to u I don't know what to say
Sillian murphy😃👍
his smile is so cute
I live in the U.S. and I've actually known/known of a few Killians, but it's always spelled with a "K" and not a "C". However that meant it wasn't too confusing the first time I saw his name
I love that I've said his name right for years, I've been his fan since i watched inception and batman begins as a kid
My experience has blindly been the opposite. 😔
The most Irish moment of all Irish
Cillian is great actor and has such a strong screen presence. Will watch any movie he is in.
Is there a Part 2 for Murphy?
Everyone that’s been pronouncing it “Silly Anne” telling me I was wrong saying “Kill e Anne” owes me a beer
At least! The ignorance is palpable, lmao
@@Void-Knull it should be sillian
@@islixxn We're really not telling people how a name *should* be pronounced now, are we? 😂✋🏼💥...
you'll probably gonna need a new liver then
@@islixxn
You're American aren't you
I'm glad CZcams showed me this video! I never knew there was a channel called "Celebrities Saying Their Own Names" and boy, did I need it
I'm a journalist, so there have been a few times where I had to interview actors. I always get afraid of mispronouncing their names, so I spend a considerable amount of time looking for their interviews just to make sure I get their names right and don’t sound unprepared / uninterested!
So thank you for this channel ♥
It's nice to see a journalist who cares enough to want to pronounce the names properly. So many don't seem to do their homework.
I love him ❤
As a french person, it was natural to pronouce it with a K because we also have a similar first name that comes from celts : Kylian
kylian mbappe?
@@lamalb3184 Famous celtic warrior
@@bretonche6754 oh
Arrête ton char, Kylian, avant Mbappe ce prénom personne ou presque n'en avait entendu parler, et Cillian la plupart des gens de France le prononce Silian, parce que c+i=si en bon Français.
@@bretonche6754 Mbappe is a Bantu name. Like Mbutu or Mzungu.
"They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they use it."
I feel his pain as an Irishman in England with a traditional name.
“Oh, your name is Siobháin? How’d you spell that?
@@ASmartNameForMe Funnily enough I once worked with a lady who had to phone up a client named Siobhan. Keeled over laughing when I overheard her ask for "Sio ban"
@@Standard_Jay to be fair, the v sounds in Irish words can be REALLY confusing if you’re not Irish, nowhere uses bh or mh for that. It’s like us trying to pronounce a Welsh name
Wait how is siobhain pronounced
@@xoxohaniaIt’s like Shih-Vawn I think.
Why I gotta have an unskippable ad longer than the fucking video
Killian’s Irish Red knew the importance of phonetics way back. Lol
It's just funny because I watched an interview the other day with RDJ sitting right next to Cillian and saying his name wrong.
Edit: I was mistaken 😔
Oh which interview is that ?
@wolfstarshipper I just watched it again, and I was wrong. He does say it correctly. I remembered wrong 🤕
@@TrashPanda5150 😂 anyways thanks for answering though
That's why it's not Celebrities Saying their Costars' Names 🤓
@@wolfstarshipper It was this interview czcams.com/video/oXT6NNrpFg8/video.html
I don't know why my brain thought RDJ said it wrong.
Its called Kylinder not cylinder
wow Sillian is such a good actor
Just got 2 unskippable ads for a 14 second video.
I always thought Cillian looked similar to an elf (the LOTR one), because he isn't handsome, he's beautiful. So in LOTR fashion, I always pronounced his name as Killian, because in LOTR, C usually has a K sound if it in the beginning of a name. Imagine my joy when I found this
I love that logic so much
Tolkien took some inspiration from Welsh when creating Sindarin, Welsh and Irish are fairly closely related languages
He IS handsome to me
@@aduantasNot that closely related, they're not mutually intelligible. They're about as closely related as English and Dutch.
I didn’t know anyone pronounced it any other way 😂
As a Hispanic, I had no reason to believe it was pronounced like a "K". Partly because it's not a common name where I'm from at all. And partly because, in Spanish, the "C" is softened like an "S" whenever it's followed by an "e" or an "i". Only when it's followed by "a", "o" or "u" is it pronounced like a "K"
King!!
CZcams really just put a 15-second ad on a 13-second video...
So rude 😩
F in the chat who pronounced it calling with c instead of k
I thought it was Sillian
@@thol2324 F
@@Shelby_Lyrics to be fair, I only thought it was that for about 1 week after discovering cillian, I learned it pretty quick lol
I thought it was pronounced “Seelian”.
@@andrewbeauparlant2477 it Keeps Getting Worse And Worse
his brogue is not strong, so it makes sense that he is easily able to do an american accent
It was much stronger when he was younger. But that happens when you leave and live somewhere else for a while, I bet when he returns to Ireland it thickens again
@@realslimshady6998 even from 14 years ago, his brogue wasnt that strong. my grandfather was from county cork and he never had a very strong accent. ive heard some irish accents that sound very american.
@@thewkovacs316 if you hear it when he was 19 though which is before he moved. It was stronger than it is. Cork accents tend to adapt easy is what I've found
good diss! enjoy ur life.
i had to watch 2 15 seconds unskippable ads to watch this
All that immense build up only to discover I have been pronouncing his name correctly after all these years...
The suspense 🫠
Guys it is pronounced as "Cillian"! not "Cillian"
Obviously!
The best actor of his generation.
LOL
He's one of em for sure.
@@tubisinah even’s acting is just 80% pouting and 20% over reacting.
You have seen very few
...and that's the cillian experience.
This reminds me of that episode of The Great North when Wolf keeps calling him "Sillian" 😅
Well then his opposite isn't _Serious-an_ Murphy. It's _Live-ian_ Murphy
so i HAVE been saying it wrong-
Same
Long time fan, first-time pronouncer!
Why did this 13 second video require an 11 second pre-roll ad?
CZcams be like that 😩
as much as i love this man with every piece of my soul i will always pronounce it sillian so i can nickname him silly
I never suspected it could be anything but 'K' sound. But I cannot understand why Sean is 'Shon'.
(not an English speaker)
@@sdamer4609as an English speaker, I cannot understand why Sean is pronounced that way either.
@@sdamer4609It’s an Irish name. So it follows the rules of the Irish language.
@@allergictohumansnotanimals5671 It’s an Irish name. So it follows the rules of the Irish language.
Aa a football fan, I've been suggested this during the Kylian wave. They're trying to feed me as much of this pronunciation as possible, lol
Why would I see this comment, now my brain is singing the kylian song
My brother is actually named Killian. We aren't even 1% Irish: my dad simply enjoys the beer.
It's a Celtoid name, and they spanned the ancestral continent throughout millennia.
#sad
and knowing is half the battle
Grew up in the States. I've always known how to pronounce this name. But then, my family identifies rather strongly with our Scotch-Irish heritage, so when I see a name that looks so obviously Irish and begins with a C, I pronounce it as a hard C without even questioning it.
As an Irish person, I can confirm that this is true
As a Latin student, my brain has wired itself to pronounce Cs like Ks so I got this right 💀💀
why did you decide to study latin? what drove you to do it? im sure you are aware how useless it is so im just wondering why
@@raspberry_picker395 in case he wants to time travel
@@raspberry_picker395well it obviously isn't if they wired their brain to pronounce Cillian correctly. Besides, beyond me fundamentally disagreeing that a skill needs to be "useful" to be fulfilling, knowing latin IS useful. It's good for understanding etymology of european languages, generally wiring the brain to think more critically about how and why we use language.
@@avajessicagilmour8186 I agree that a skill doesnt need to be useful in order to be fulfilling. All knowledge is useful and purposeful. But to study latinology (or however the branch of linguistics which studies Latin is named) is a life bending decision without a bright financial future. It is as useful as a pietistic theological degree is - important in history, replacable as dirt. I understand wanting to do what you love, but I dont understand why you would love Latin, and to add to it, love it enough to accept being setup to financially fail in your life.
@@raspberry_picker395 that's a fair perspective.
Ngl, CZcams recommended this to me and I have no idea who this man this but as an Irish person myself, I haven't met a few Cillians in my life. One of my cousin's sons are called Cillian
I had no idea people were actually pronouncing his name differently . I practically grew up watching Nolan’s dark knight trilogy so I always knew how to pronounce it correctly. I’m guessing this of his new fans he gained from Oppenheimer.
Ok maybe I'm just assuming things but that last phrase was so "I'm a better fan than you". I haven't watched Oppenheimer though.
My mom didn't know it was K-illian apparently. It's like guys, think about the language origin of the name. If it's an Irish/Gaelic name, there's not a lot of soft c's in Gaelic, so it's likely pronounced like a K. Same goes for French. If it ends in a vowel then a T, chances are that T is silent and the vowel is pronounced with a long pronunciation.
The more you know...
@@pegarange I mean pretty much all cultures are ignorant of other languages and cultures (in general) unless you're taught well/live in a multicultural environment. A lot of Chinese speakers who learn about other cultures are shocked and saddened to realize how similar their 5000 year culture is to much younger cultures as an example. I think its more an ignorance thing than something particular to a certain cultural subset.
Like that woman who mentioned "Gal Gadoh". 🤣
Heh, glad I finally found out for sure. I find it interesting that my language (Czech) actually pronounces letters the way they are pronounced in the alphabet. Not all of the pronunciation, of course, the alphabet adds letters, but for instance, K (pronounced in the alphabet as kaa) is always the same as K in English without the "ay" part of "kay". I always wondered why would languages evolve alphabets and then ignored it in word pronunciation.
The spoken word came first. Then the speakers of many languages took the Latin alphabet and adapted it to suit their language. "C" is always hard in Irish (unless it's followed by "h") even though, in many languages, it's pronounced differently if it comes before an "e" or an "i" than if it comes before a different vowel. We use the alphabet to both convey meaning and approximate pronunciation, although pronunciation changes faster than accepted spelling.
@@be8nice What you say is true, but it doesn't explain why. What prompted such evolution? I don't think alphabets convey meaning (they're just letters of which words that do carry meaning are composed, after all), but I find it curious that C would be pronounced as C in some words and K in others. In Czech, C is a C and K is a K and there are few, if any, exceptions.
With that in mind, I don't even know what the purpose of alphabet is in English. Yes, it defines the acceptable set of symbols, but while in Czech it also provides a very solid base for pronunciation, in English that is far from the truth.
Practical implications are obvious - when you ask a Czech to spell out a Czech word, he/she is likely to get it right even if the word is completely unknown to him/her. It's much less likely in English, as Mr. Murphy demonstrates.
@@be8nice And this, sir/milady, is an amazing write-up. Thank you very much for it. It makes quite a lot of sense and does indeed explain the variations. It was a great read.
In case you are interested, I can add in regards to Czech that you are right, we do have diacritics and accents that don't make sense in other languages (all vowels, for instance, can be pronounced as short, e.g. "A", or long, e.g. "AA"). Or there are variations, softening the sounds of some letters like D ("dee") to Ď ("dyee"), or even hardening them ("R", aside from it's very hard pronunciation, has the variant of Ř, which only few languages seem to contain as a sound and is very hard to pronounce - to the extend of children taking a very long time to learn both letters, some not managing it in their entire lives, like the first Czech president of the modern Czech Republic).
@@becausebuzzbomb6133 Thank you for your kind words! It's nice to be appreciated. Learning languages is a bit of a hobby of mine, and now my interest in Czech has been piqued. I'm going to have to find some audio samples of a Czech "R" and "Ř." As it happens, native English speakers often have trouble with "R" as well. (The actor/playwright/songwriter Noel Coward trilled his initial "R" sounds to cover up his inability to pronounce them properly. It worked for him, coming across as a fitting affectation. Not everyone would have been able to get away with it, and I'm not sure anyone would nowadays.)
I believe what you describe as the difference between D and Ď occurs in a lot of Slavic languages. Interestingly, something similar occurs in Irish, in the concept of "broad" and "slender" consonants. Although "Cillian" has a hard "c" sound, it is also slender because it comes before an "i." You prepare your mouth for the vowel that will follow (or that preceded, or both) when you say the consonant. It's more obvious with "t" and "d." Depending on your accent in Irish, a slender "t" might sound like an English "tch" and a slender "d" might sound like an English "j" or "dg" as in 'judge." This happens in some accents speaking English as well, with "don't you" becoming "don'chew" and "did you" becoming a joke in Annie Hall (before your time?): "Did jew eat yet?" The difference between a slender and broad "s" is critical and leads to a lot of Irish names being mispronounced: an "s" that is next to an "e" or "i" -- slender -- is pronounced like an English "sh." If you know that, it makes pronouncing Irish names like Sinéad, Seán, and Saoirse a lot easier. (The first "s" in Saoirse is broad, the second is slender.) Irish morphology is fascinating, but it's going to have to wait while I delve into Czech.
I used to drink Killian's Irish Red back in the 90's.
And that is the Cillian experience
Loved every second of it
Loved this guy in Red Eye!
A classic 🙏🏻
Loved him in Disco Pigs, and Intermission. Excellent independent Irish Films before the rest of the world discovered him.
kid named ian:
Well, that was fucking tense
Master of suspense
I swear just today I was sitting there wondering how you pronounce his name, I'm glad Google was able to read my thoughts and give me my answer
As a person with a lisp I love this
Lord we were trying
So true 😭
Silian Moopy is my favourite author ❤
Good lord his voice is so attractive
I live in the southern states and have a child named Declan. And for the life of me, I never in a million years would’ve imagined that people would pronounce it “Da-Clan” … and that is literally the LAST thing I would want people to think… that I named my child after “the clan.” I told my son he needs to move to Ireland when he’s older and everyone will pronounce it properly. Unlike here… 🤦🏻♀️
How on earth has his name been pronounced then, if no De-clan?
Christ, that one's not even hard! It's just a case of which syllable you emphasize. Then again that's coming from someone named Colleen 🤷🏻
DECK-lin to me.
Just a different spelling of Killian. C’mon, folks. My name is Brendan, and when I need to tell someone it’s not “Brandon” it comes out very Irish. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m named after the patron saint of sailors, and I think it literally means “prince of swords.” Too tired to look it all up. Anyone that wants to elaborate or refute this, be my guest lol
Edit: Brendan is the original form of Brandon. Again, refute if necessary. Thanks.
I read The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness before knowing Cillian Murphy so I don't have a problem pronouncing his name. Cillian from the book on the other hand is a different story.
To be clear, you're referring to the part where Viola reads the diary and mispronounces it as Sillian so Todd corrects her - just to preempt anyone saying "but it's a book, you can't hear how it should be pronounced"
in english, no word that starts with "ce" or "ci" makes a hard "K" sound, it's always either a "S" or a "CH" sound, so it would make sense for people to pronounce it as "Sillian" if they've never heard it before
I KNEW IT. Do you know how often people “corrected” me when I pronounced his name “Killian” not “Sillian”? No one believed me when I told them how it’s pronounced correctly! Doesn’t help that the media in my country always mispronounces his name as well.
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Celtic is also pronounced with a hard C. It’s Keltic not Seltic. Boston has it wrong 😂
Then again, even Scotland have that wrong.
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Really? Because I’ve heard Scots say Keltic as well. Like Keltic mythology. Unless you mean they pronounce the team that way as well.
No one actually says it with an S, right?
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In the States, I hear it all the time. I think it’s because of the popularity of the basketball team.
It depends - early Latin had a hard C only - the soft C sound comes from late Latin. So it depends on the time period in question for the word Celt.
As for Irish names - it is always a hard C.
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As an Irishman I'm concerned at how popular this is and how confused people in the comments are
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Got to be one of the most straightforward Irish names to promise, honestly. Hard to believe anyone gets this one wrong.
Because in America and I'm sure other places names with a C in the beginning like that are usually pronounced with a S sound, like Cindy or Cynthia or whatever.
@@shadowproductions969 I've never met a single American or Canadian for that matter who pronounces his name with an "s" sound.
We have "c" names that use the "k" sound in English already as well. Cole is a very common name. Cathy, Callie, Cassie, etc. are also super common ones.