Merriam-Webster has managed to provoke Irish speakers on social media, after asking users about the pronunciation of a name. The dictionary publisher took to social media to ask those on X 'what word ...

As adults, Deirdre and Siobhan Murphy are proud of their names because they are Gaelic, reflecting the young women’s Irish heritage. But if their mother had buckled under pressure when the girls were ...

It’s simple if you apply Irish phonetics, which is where the name is from, social media users on X, formerly known as Twitter, pointed out to Merriam-Webster. The Springfield-based dictionary, which ...