angus wrote:
> Another novice question.... would the word 'call' , as in calling on
> the telephone, be glaoch ?
>
> Secondly, according to my various pronunciation guides (sorry, I don't
> know any native speakers...) an ' ao ' is pronounced as an english
> 'ee' - my book's example, saor would be pronounced 'seer'.
> Does this mean glaoch would be pronounced gleekh (kh representing the
> gutteral sound) ???
>
> Thanks to all of you who've been helping me out thus far !
>
>
The pronunciation you describe is the standard pronunciation.
My dialect (Donegal) is slightly different - for us the "ee" sound is
represented in this context by "aoi", and the "ao" sound as in "glaoch"
is a diphthong pronounced "GLAY-ukh" and "saor" is "SAY-ur", where the
sound represented by "u" is very short.
Slán, Einde
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