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Seant
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Username: Seant

Post Number: 13
Registered: 02-2009

Posted on Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 08:10 pm:

I found a nice youtube video of this poem/song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ojy1W6r8L0&feature=related, and appreciated the singing of Iarla O Lionaird in particular.

I was wondering why ghile is pronounced with a hard g? Is it just always pronouonced like this in this song?

Conchubhar1
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Post Number: 48
Registered: 03-2009

Posted on Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 08:38 pm:

muh gila mar - i would pronounce it like that

like most things there is several ways to say it

Trigger
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Post Number: 341
Registered: 10-2007

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 - 09:36 am:

GH is never prononced as a G a chara.

Gaeilge go deo!

Seant
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Post Number: 16
Registered: 02-2009

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 - 10:11 am:

A Thriggir, I would have expected " a yili mar", but can you listen to that youtube video and tell me if I am wrong about this? Maybe in this particular song it is pronounced "mo gile mear"?

Lars
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Username: Lars

Post Number: 317
Registered: 08-2005

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 - 10:39 am:

They sing:
Sé mo laoch mo ghile mear
Sé mo Chaesar, gile mear,
Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin
Ó chuaigh i gcéin mo ghile mear

First and last line /j/ in mo ghile mear
Second line /g´/ in gile mear without mo.

Lars

Seant
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Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2009

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 - 12:26 pm:

Thanks, Lars, I see that now!

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