Coffee 9:50 Fri Mar 20
Irish names
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How the heck do they work out the spelling?
Siobhan = Shivorn
Niamh = Neeve
Aoibhín = Eeveen
Aisling = Ashling
Sean = Shorn
Saoirse = Sersha
For these alone, the Irish fully deserve their reputation.
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Fivetide
9:45 Mon Mar 23
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I know a girl from Derry. Her name is Sophie. I guess you could try calling here Sop-high-ee if you're feeling brave but I wouldn't.
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riosleftsock
9:15 Mon Mar 23
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Trent - no its definitely pronounced CUNT
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riosleftsock
9:15 Mon Mar 23
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Trent - no its definitely pronounced CUNT
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MrTrentReznor
9:06 Mon Mar 23
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Ri O'Leftsock it's called a 'fada' pronounced Phad-da & it's over the A in Aine. Anya is not quite right. It's Awn-ya.
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riosleftsock
8:58 Mon Mar 23
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Paddies are massive cunts.
I have a client called Anne.
She insists on signing her name as Aine (with an acute or grave on the e or i - can't remember).
Had a meeting with her recently, have dealt with her for years, she has now insisted on her name being pronounced Anya, as she has apparently found out that this is how it should be pronounced.
This is a bird who is about as Irish as an Irish-american.
Utter cunts all of dem.
Ri O' Sleftsock
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MrTrentReznor
8:48 Mon Mar 23
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Mark Noble - Marc Mac Uasal ( or possibly some variation of Ri or Rian but that's King or Regal as opposed to noble)
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icwhs
9:16 Mon Mar 23
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Coffee 4:39 Mon Mar 23
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A tasty bread roll a small portion of Irish butter, a bit of chesse and a strawberry yogurt , decent coffee as well
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icwhs
9:10 Mon Mar 23
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Donal is my favourite, he used to get the hump when everyone called him Donald ?
It's not that hard, so I agreed with him
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Coffee
4:39 Mon Mar 23
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ohgodno 5:04 Sun Mar 22
Congratulations on getting airline food into a thread about Irish spelling. What does Aer Lingus do for breakfast?
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Far East Hammer
3:43 Mon Mar 23
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Ruairí - from the spelling it's reasonably obvious that it'd be pronounced Rory, but it's far from obvious on hearing Rory that it'd be spelled that way - a bit like French to be honest, i.e. almost every word is pronounced ending in "erh" which is no fucking use when trying to work out how to spell the fucking words...
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stomper
6:36 Sun Mar 22
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So how would the Irish spell Mark Noble?
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ohgodno
5:04 Sun Mar 22
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gph 2:18 Sun Mar 22
You think Coffee gives a shit or do you think he just wanted to try out a bit of "whats the deal with airline food" style material. Like he's the first person to notice the disconnect between Irish spelling and pronunciation in English.
Next week on Coffee's "comedy" cavalcade "HOW THE FUCK DO YOU PRONOUNCE THESE HERE LINES WHAT THEM CHINESE WRITE WITH"
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gph
2:18 Sun Mar 22
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According to Wiki, Irish Gaelic has three different main dialects, each with a different correspondence between letters and sounds.
In addition, most consonants come in two flavours, broad and slender, a bit like the Slavic hard and soft variants
Non-speakers' ears tend to get a bit confused at this.
Chuck in a bit of consonant mutation dependent on grammatical function for good measure.
Since most Irish people, and presumably most people giving their kids Irish names, don't speak Irish, you have a good recipe for chaos.
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ohgodno
10:59 Sun Mar 22
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Coffee 9:50 Fri Mar 20
In other languages different letters, or different combinations of letters, provoke sounds other than those they provoke in English.
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MrTrentReznor
9:38 Sun Mar 22
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Donncha - Done - a - ka
Gobnait - Gub - knit
Pass a sign for place called Gneeveguilla on way to work.
Have a go at that.
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Westham67
6:37 Sun Mar 22
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I believe so, though I'm no expert
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Coffee
6:35 Sun Mar 22
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Like Onion is the language of the 'Uns.
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Westham67
6:32 Sun Mar 22
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Yes Garlic coffee the language of the Garls
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Coffee
6:30 Sun Mar 22
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Garlic?
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Westham67
6:24 Sun Mar 22
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Taoiseach which is Garlic for T-Shirt
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Monk~koknee
6:22 Sun Mar 22
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It's the Tea Shop
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