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Scéal faoi san Irish Times

http://www.gaelport.com/index.php?page=clippings&id=4020&viewby=date

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'Most of the country's place-names are Irish in origin, but through history and the decline of the Irish language as the everyday vernacular, many of our place-names have evolved into anglicised versions of the original names,' he said.

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'It was a hard call, these things are not black and white, but I felt this had come into the language and you have to allow change over time, and of course you know the most famous one of all and I'm not going to mention it,' he said.

Cad dó a bhfuil sé ag déanamh tagartha?

Dingle Dangle Y Whoosh, dar ndóigh!

B'é ball de Monty Python's Flying Circus nó réamhtheachtaí dó sa státseirbhís shasanaigh sa seachtú haois déag, is dóigh liom, a chum roinnt de na leagain bhéarla de na logainmeacha agus gach ceann acu mar leacht cuimhneacháin dá ghreann diabhalta.

Dár ndóigh, is sínte faoi leacht cuimhneacháin eile thall i Sasana atá an áilteoir le fada an lá ach má tá sé ag baint taitneamh fós as na heachtraí greannmhara úd leis, bheadh sé ag dul dó agus greim an bháiteacháin ag muintir na háiteanna i gceist ar na nobbers, ballylickeys, ballinspittles agus, an bhfuil de dhánacht ionam dá thagairt, dingle, lingle, ling.

An bhfuil fhios ag an saol ar chor ar bith gurbh é an t-ainm a chur sé ar "Rann na nGág" ná "Running Gag"? Agus muna raibh duine nó dhó ann agus cuimhne coinneáilte fós acu ar "Rann na nGág", bheadh "Scéal Grinn Reatha" mar logainm oifigiúil ar an áit go dtí an lá atá inniu ann.

Ach más fearr le muintir na háite i gceist "Running Gag" mar logainm...?

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"Rann na nGág"

100 pointe eile do Ghryffindor!

Maidir leis na logainmneacha ná déanaigí dearmad ar an 'Ordnance Survey of Ireland' idir na blianta 1824-1842. Cheap mise gurb é sin a bhí fé ndeara?

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