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Liam Hennessy (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 09:44 am:

If I search on Google for the word 'Gaelige' I get over 30,000 results. Is this a common misspelling or can it be correct in some usage?

If I search on Google for the word 'Gaeilge' I get over 6 million results.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Aonghus
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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 10:41 am:

It is a common misspelling and never correct.

Ingeborg
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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:13 am:

I think it is an Irish orthographic convention always (?) to spell a stressed [ɛ] as "ei", if it is followed by a slender consonant.

(Message edited by ingeborg on April 15, 2008)

Lughaidh
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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 03:38 pm:

I agree with Aonghus.
On top of that, I don't think people pronounce Gaeilge as [ˈgˠɛːlʲɪɟɪ] in any Gaeltacht, so it's even not a phonetic transcription...
gˠɛːlʲɪc in Ulster
gˠɛːlʲɟɪ in Connemara
gˠɛːlˠɪnʲ or gˠɛːlˠɪŋʲ in Munster...

Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/

Ingeborg
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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 04:46 pm:

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pronounce Gaeilge as [ˈgˠɛːlʲɪɟɪ]

Why did you put that ɪ between l and ɟ? I thought there is no epenthesis after long vowels.

Ingeborg
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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 05:19 pm:

Yes, of course, it was about the wrong spelling *Gaelige*. I had not read it properly.

Trigger
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Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 08:08 am:

I've even been told that someone saw that written on the back of a book once.

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