Re: Silent E
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 6, 2001, 13:43 |
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> 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.
Well, my Irish Gaelic (however poor it is!) generally
came from older sources. And of course, my Old Irish
is more or less exempt from the 40 Year rule. :)
No one's mentioned Manx - how does it fit into the
mess?
>
> > 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')
I can ask where in Ireland they're from, if you like.
One is a (now rather rusty) Gaelic speaker, the other
I don't know. I know one was from the North somewhere
and didn't speak Gaelic. What's a dort accent?
Padraic.
> K.
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