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The Case of the Missing ‘P’ or, Ó ‘Tharmachan’ (Irish) go ‘Ptarmigan’ (English) Posted by róislín on Jun 23, 2013
(le Róislín) In the last blog, we looked at a few of the more unusually spelled words in the Irish language (aghaidh, bratach/bhratach, buachar/bhuachair lámh/láimhe, Saoirse/Shaoirse and saoirse/shaoirse, sráid/tsráid). Not that these are overly long or unusual words in Irish. They’re mostly very basic vocabulary, except perhaps for “buachar” (cow-dung) which is no doubt ordinary…