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How to say “steep slope” and “switchback” in Irish Posted by róislín on Mar 21, 2019
(le Róislín) Cá bhfuil an tsráid seo? Where is this street? Perhaps you recognized it, Lombard Street in San Francisco. Not quite the steepest residential street in the word — that honor belongs to Baldwin Street, Dunedin, NZ — but certainly one of the steepest (ar cheann de na sráideanna cónaithe is géire ar domhan)…
Cúig Fhrása (Béarla) Gan Mhaith (De Réir Fhionntán Uí Thuathail aka Fintan O’Toole) (Cuid 1/4) Posted by róislín on Jan 4, 2012
(le Róislín) Noted journalist Fintan O’Toole recently published his list of five phrases that he thinks should be outlawed in 2012 (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0103/1224309734610_pf.html). Not that words are typically actually outlawed as such, but he feels these five phrases “distort or conceal” reality and are misleading. For example, we constantly discuss “austerity,” but meanwhile certain individuals are…