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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2005 (July-August) » Archive through August 03, 2005 » Town name pronunciation--Liscannor « Previous Next »

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Cait_rua
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Username: Cait_rua

Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2005
Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 08:39 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Not sure where the accent is on this, never heard it, just read it. LIS-can-nor or lis-CAN-nor?

Go raibh maith agat.

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Paul_h
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Post Number: 36
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 08:48 am:   Edit Post Print Post

I say lis-CANN-or,
but then I'm from Dublin:-)

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Cait_rua
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Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2005
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 07:54 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Maith go leor, now I can tell a story involving Liscannor stone without worrying about how I say it!

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Robert
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Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 11:47 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Cait-rua,
don't worry. Most broadcasters and an increasing number of Irish in Ireland cannot pronounce Hiberno-English placenames. Attempting to do so in their faux deliveries makes for an odd result.

I even met someone the other day who is somewhat anti-English in his political leanings, yet who could not pronounce the name of a town in Cork referred to in a daily newspaper.

Make of that what you will...

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Dalta
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Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 07:22 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

I have relatives down near Liscannor, what are you up to down there?

Agus a Róbáird, cinnte, tá na frith-Sacsanaigh súid chomh Éireannach is atá an Bhainríon.



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