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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <8734kjw7rp.fsf@parhasard.net> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <v4m327$2ca8e$1@news.trigofacile.com> <v4m54q$3uuql$1@dont-email.me> <v4mc05$7db$1@dont-email.me> <877ceod9r4.fsf@parhasard.net> <v4o3re$akkm$1@dont-email.me> |
(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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