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Á, ÁI, AÍ, ÁÍ, (Not To Mention “Aghaidh”): More Irish Pronunciation Tips Posted by róislín on Oct 28, 2011
(le Róislín) Don’t blink, or you might miss the various long marks (síntí fada) in the vowel sounds above. Actually, it’s a lot easier to spot the long marks when the letters happen to be capitalized, rather than when they’re lower case: á, ái, aí, áí. And actually it’s really just over the letter “i”…
Foirmeacha Iolra le “-aithe” agus le “-aí” (Plural Forms) Posted by róislín on Oct 24, 2011
(le Róislín) In the last few blogs, we’ve used words like “zombaí” (plural: zombaithe) and “moncaí” (pl. moncaithe), as well as “stocamhoncaí” and “stocamhoncaithe,” for “sock monkey(s).” It may just be my memory, but I don’t remember stocamhoncaithe zombaí ever being so popular before this year’s Oíche Shamhna (Halloween 2011) In Irish, it would be…