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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".
Henry Kisor Member # 4776
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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.
irishchieftain Member # 1473
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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).
Henry Kisor Member # 4776
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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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