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Cén Ghaeilge atá ar “lazy hazy crazy”? Posted by róislín on Jul 15, 2016
(le Róislín) Lár an tsamhraidh atá ann. So it seems like a good time to pick three keywords from Nat King Cole’s “The Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” and see what they’d be in Irish. Not that they’re going to have the clever (-azy-azy-azy) rhyme scheme of the song, but still, vocab is vocab…
How to Say ‘Multilingual Madness’ in Irish (Cuid 2/2) Posted by róislín on Apr 6, 2014
(le Róislín) In the last blog, we looked at the word “multilingual” in Irish and discussed “ilteangach” and “ilbhéarlach” as the choices. Both use the prefix “il-” (“many;” also found in words like “ilghuthach” and “ilstórach“). “Teangach,” as the core of the word “ilteangach,” is, of course, from “teanga” (tongue), and “-bhéarlach” (lenited after…