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Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France

From Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France
Date 2024-10-26 10:08 +0100
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(I missed this at the time)

 Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Peter Moylan: 

 > On 17/06/24 04:26, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
 > 
 > > Ar an séú lá déag de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Peter Moylan:
 > 
 > I'm still having great trouble memorising Irish spellings. At first
 > glance I thought lá déag must mean a red-letter day.

Hahah!

 > It doesn't help that I'm a non-rhotic speaker of English.

The pronunciation is clearly different, [dʲeəg] vs [dʲæʳg]. Can you manage
vowels with (alveolar, not uvular) rhotacisation? I would guess that you have
intrusive -r which would imply you can, but I may be wrong in this guess.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)

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Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-10-26 10:08 +0100
  Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-10-26 23:31 +1100
    Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-26 16:01 +0200
    Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-10-27 11:43 +0000
      Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-10-27 19:53 +0100
      Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-10-28 12:43 +1100
        Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-10-28 23:09 +1300
        Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-10-28 18:47 +0000
    Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> - 2024-10-27 20:46 +0100
      Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-10-28 10:09 +1100

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