> whatever the Welsh call their language (Welsh? some flavor > of Gaelic?)
The English call it Welsh. The Welsh call it Cymraeg. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/ Laphroig: 'Lafree Islay: 'Eye luh Dunlaoghaire: Dunleary If you drink enough of the stuff you can pronounce anything any way you like, and everyone will understand you. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s3LRpHNB3l8&feature=related Some languages are just naturally difficult. We have some German clients and have been searching for advice about the correct way to pronounce the name of one of them: Herman Jungkunz. Bob > > Larry Colen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:24:02PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > # I'm an Islay guy. Laphroig or Lagavulin for me. Give me peat! > > OK, this is something that's bugged me for a long time. Is there a > resource out there on the Internet, or anywhere else, where I > can figure > out how to pronounce (a) Scottish names/words and (b) Welsh > names/words? > I'm /not/ kidding. "Islay" looks easy but I bet I don't > pronounce it > like the natives. And the other two are just beyond me. And > we won't > even get into the "forty-three-consonants-in-a-row" stuff > that shows up > in whatever the Welsh call their language (Welsh? some flavor > of Gaelic?). > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
