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Three ways to spell ‘August’ in Irish: historic, dated, and modern (Lúnasa et al.) Posted by on Jul 31, 2018

(le Róislín) As you can see from the graphic above, there are three different ways to spell “August” in Irish: the modern way: Lúnasa a dated way, mostly found before 1960-ish: Lughnasa a historic way, going back to the Middle Ages: Lughnasadh.  Even that is somewhat of an adaptation, as it originally would have been…

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