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Irish names you’re probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
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[-] Paragone@mander.xyz -2 points 5 months ago

So, basically, written Irish isn't so much a language, as, rather, a form of encryption somehow devised by the Irish to prohibit communication?

Phil Bolger was right: whomever devised such spellings, to "represent" Irish speech, deserves some quality-time in hell.

Yeeks.

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