How I Met Your Mother Star Alyson Hannigan Struggles With The Cúpla Focal

Alyson Hannigan revealed that, like most of us, she struggles with the Irish language.

The American actress and star of How I Met Your Mother revealed that although she wanted to give her daughter an Irish name, spelling it was extremely difficult.

The red-head welcomed her second daughter Keeva last Spring and told Ellen Degeneres that the traditional spelling really stumped her.

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“I can't even spell the actual Gaelic version [Caoimhe],' she admitted. 'But it looks like when you grab your Scrabble tiles and you go, "Oh that's not a word.”

“It means just lovely, wonderful, beautiful, it's like eight words but they're all nice,” she told the talk show host.

The actress also has a three-year-old daughter, Satayana, and said being a mom has made her really forgetful.

“You get really dumb when you have kids because the pregnancy brain thing,” she explained.

“And then you're like "I just haven't slept in four years".

Check out the interview below!