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sojourner
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-08/dear-president-obama-save-my-fathers-train-station/
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I think Máire Ní Muimhneacháin ought to have more pressing things to worry about instead of Muiceoil Rialú, really…

And to be frank, turning the Farley Post Office into a concourse is not the same as "rebuilding Penn Station".

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I have always wondered why Gaels cannot spell things the way they are said. Or Franks, for that matter.

Now for another cup of kauphy.

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You should have seen the original spelling. There used to be a diacritical mark called a buailte, sort of a reverse "dagesh" (for those familiar with Hebrew); it was a single dot that appeared on top of the letter, indicating that the pronunciation of the letter was of a guttural or fricative nature. The buailte was replaced with a digraph with "h" when Irish Gaelic was standardized. Vowels in Irish, though, generally follow Latin pronunciation rules, as does the letter C (always "hard", like K).
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All right, Irishchieftain, exactly what are you a professor of, and what university do you haunt? You clearly are an educated person, probably one with an advanced degree.
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