I have it on good authority from several Irish persons that the name of the Irish language in English is "Irish". In Irish it's "gaeilge". "Gaelic" is normally reserved for the language of Scotland "Gaeilge na hAlban" (or Gh`aidhlig in Scossgallic)
Csirz >-----Original Message----- >From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu >[[1]mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Robb >Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:04 AM >To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Paul Gretton >Subject: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation > > > OK so it doesn't butter your parsnip! > Perhaps the easiest answer is to press the stop button instead > of letting it bother you! > Cheers > Anthony > --- On Fri, 5/2/10, Paul Gretton <i...@gretton-willems.com> wrote: > > From: Paul Gretton <i...@gretton-willems.com> > Subject: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation > To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu > Date: Friday, 5 February, 2010, 9:25 > > >>>There's a youtube of Maureen Hegarty singing a particularly > attractive > >>>version at [1][2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 , with a > link to > >>her own youtube with her singing a lot of other Irish classics. > "particularly attractive" ? LOL! How about "Make sure you >have a barf > bag > handy before you listen! " > But then: de gustibus non est disputandum as we say in Maastricht > (pronounced "disgusting buses full of disputing nuns"). > Mr Nasty > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2][3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > >References > > 1. [4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 > 2. [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- References 1. mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
