V interesting discussion re the Irish language. Thank you!
My Gaeilge is v rusty. Learned English grammar through Irish many moons ago
when I was about 10 yrs old. I remember the teacher trying to teach us about
slender (‘coal’ = kweel) and broad (‘leathan’ = lahan) vowels.
Liz Conlon
Well Jim,
I like that explanation. It recalls to some extent the background of the
/séimhiú /or lenition in Irish Gaeli/c - //Gaeilge/ - a very, very old
language. The 'h' is not part of the Irish alphabet, which helps to
explain in part, the difficulty in pronunciation of Irish Gaelic.
In
Lizanne,
I assume you are looking for John W McGarvey’s place of birth in Ireland?
Most RC parish records in Ireland are on-line these days, both on the nli
site and on Ancestry. So if you have checked those sources and found
nothing then the likely explanation is probably that he was
And my M'Elrea became Mylrea on the Isle of Man!Kathleen On
Wed, 13 May 2020 03:22:10 -0700 elwyn soutter via
CoTyroneList wrote There’s similar
confusion over the letter Z as it appears in surnames inIreland and Scotland.
Gaelic doesn’t have the
There’s similar confusion over the letter Z as it appears in surnames in
Ireland and Scotland. Gaelic doesn’t have the letter Y and scholars,
perhaps unwisely, decided to express that sound using the letter Z instead.
So the surname Dalziel is correctly pronounced Dee-Yell. (But sometimes now
Well, I was very surprised at the correct answer
https://blog.eogn.com/2020/05/12/how-do-you-pronounce-ye-2/
Enjoy!
Jim McKane
Kitchener, Ontario
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