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I hope it isn't just me who's done this!

 

For years I pronounced Katie McGrath's name wrong. (The 'th' in McGrath is silent, which it took me two years to find out :P) And I won't insult myself by explaining how badly I've been pronouncing Leigh Whannell's name. (His name is pronounced Lee. I should have known that.)

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how about Saoirse Ronan , the Irish actress from The Host. I've heard at least four different pronounced versions of her name when people have called for an autograph. Its actually said as Sursha!

A name like Saoirse is a trick name anyway, like Siobhan. After the 'S', none of the letters make sense. :lol: No offense to anyone with those names of course, but only recently did I work out the actual pronounciation for both names and wow did I feel stupid.

 

Oh, another was Daveigh Chase. Granted, I was eight years old, but I thought it was pronounced 'Day-vie' at first, when it's actually 'Duh-vey'.

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how about Saoirse Ronan , the Irish actress from The Host. I've heard at least four different pronounced versions of her name when people have called for an autograph. Its actually said as Sursha!

A name like Saoirse is a trick name anyway, like Siobhan. After the 'S', none of the letters make sense. :lol: No offense to anyone with those names of course, but only recently did I work out the actual pronounciation for both names and wow did I feel stupid.

 

Oh, another was Daveigh Chase. Granted, I was eight years old, but I thought it was pronounced 'Day-vie' at first, when it's actually 'Duh-vey'.

My name is Siobhan. I have no idea what you're talking about, it's so easy to pronounce. :P
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To THIS day I don't know how to pronounce Cary Elwes surname - El-WES or Eullles is still a conundrum to me.

 

I was speaking to a Friend yesterday and mentioned that Alice Krige had been announced for #LFCC and totally pronounced her surname wrong - but as iloveAmyAdams says about Saoirse I wasn't sure how to pronounce that.

 

But yep even now I don't know how to pronounce Elwes.

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Oh, Cary Elwes! I absolutely have the same problem (he's up there with Leigh Whannell in terms of how much embarrassment this causes me ><), although I learned his last name is pronounced 'El-wez'.

 

Thank goodness its not just me :) Its definitely pronounced 'El-wez'? I shall reprogram myself to know this to be true in this case.

 

Many thank yous :)

 

*Bows Majestically*

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His IMDB page and a youtube interview have confirmed this. :D I had to watch multiple youtube interviews to figure out that Leigh Whannell's name is pronounced 'Lee' (and sometimes with the Australian accents, it still sounds like 'Lay')... interviews are your friend!

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My sister and I sat and repeatedly listened to the first bit of a DVD commentary on Agents of SHIELD to learn how Iain De Caestecker pronounced his surname (he has since explained it in a much more simple way - 'remove all the Es and just read what's left')

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I got to admit that I began pronouncing my favourite artist's name wrong - H.R Giger

 

It is GEE-GUR not GUY-GUR

 

Gee - Gur as in GEE GUR :) Ahhhh now i know

I've not heard of H.R Giger but admittedly I wouldn't have known how to pronounce that either... o.o

 

He's most well known for designing the concept art for Alien - he attended the Prometheus Premiere in 2012 and so both him and Sir. Ridley Scott are on my Alien DVD.

 

IF I had the money spare I'd get Sigourney to sign it as well.

 

H.R. passed away some time ago.

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I've not heard of H.R Giger but admittedly I wouldn't have known how to pronounce that either... o.o

He designed the original Alien (the Sigourny franchise) And did a lot of work on Species too. Very dark bio-mechanical/sexual artist. I'm a fan, but he's definitely not for everyone's taste!
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