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‘Sceamhóg’ vs. ‘Scamhóg” in Irish (and for good measure ‘sceallóg’ and ‘scailleog’) Posted by on May 16, 2017

(le Róislín) While working on the most recent blogs, on prátaí, (naisc thíos), I noticed an interesting coincidence about the pronunciation of some Irish words.  Last time, we talked extensively about words for “chips”, which included “sceamhóg” (flake, chip, slice).  In today’s post, we’ll look at a similar-sounding word, “scamhóg,” which has a completely different…

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