Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> wrote:
> Welsh and Irish Gaelic are both Celtic languages. English (and
> Hiberno-English) are Germanic. Gaelic is riddled with its share
> of silent letters as well.
Scots. Irish got rid of most of them 40 years ago.
> My own name has a silent D (or
> dotted D, really), for example: Padraic = /porIk/ (or "poor rick"
> if you don't know IPA).
I've only ever heard it pronounced that way by people with `dort' accents or
foreigners who learnt that pronounciation from them. I pronounce it /pO_drIg/
(`pawed-rig')
K.
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