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Saturday 23 November, 2024
Saturday 23 November, 2024
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Nobody in the UK can pronounce 'Oisín' and it's driving Irish people mad
YESTERDAY, NEWS broke that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson had been sacked by the BBC after a ‘fracas’ with a producer on the show.
The story was a leading news item for most of the day, but UK media had a lot of trouble with one key element – producer Oisín Tymon’s name.
Yes, everyone is trying and failing to pronounce the extremely Irish name ‘Oisín’. Here’s a Sky News reporter speaking about an ‘Oy-sin’:
And people are asking if it sounds like ‘hoi sin’ or ‘poison’:
The whole thing is driving Irish people round the bend.
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Fortunately, another Oisín is here with a handy Vine that should set things straight once and for all.
https://vine.co/v/O36idj61ZEK
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