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Irish pronunciation

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Dilbertian · 21/03/2020 12:15

How do you pronounce the Irish PM's title, please?

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JaneJeffer · 22/03/2020 00:02

Tea shock is what happens when you give Lyons to a Barry's drinker.

eggandonion · 22/03/2020 00:05

In this house we go between Barrys and Punjana (which has a lot of jingles, UTV adverts always had a wee song). We turn the moment golden, then sing Pick Punjana tea.

DramaAlpaca · 22/03/2020 00:05

MotherForkinShirtBalls' description of how to say the 't' sound at the beginning of a word in Irish is perfect.

DramaAlpaca · 22/03/2020 00:07

JaneJeffer Grin

GalleyHead · 22/03/2020 00:07

That is absolutely true of my mother, @JaneJeffer. There’d be murder.

WildIrishRose1 · 22/03/2020 00:22

@JaneJeffer at the risk of sounding anti-Irish tea (hard t this time), I'm a confirmed Yorkshire Tea cailín and have been known to travel some distance to score a pack. Needless to say, I have a spare box in the press during this difficult time...

AngelaScandal · 22/03/2020 00:25

@JaneJeffer 😂

Dilbertian · 22/03/2020 00:34

I have no difficulty with the soft T made by touching the top of the tongue to the back of the teeth instead of to the palate, but the second syllable is another matter. Any of shock/shuck/shook/shack can sound like any of them in any number of English-language dialects or accents! So, in truth, I can now make a decent attempt at pronouncing the word correctly - but it will probably still be wrong Grin

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JaneJeffer · 22/03/2020 00:39

Hi Drama 👋

DramaAlpaca · 22/03/2020 01:31

back at Jane Smile

elizabethdraper · 22/03/2020 11:14

pedantic patActually is means Chief rather than leaderBlush

LadyEloise · 04/04/2020 17:59

Tee / tee shock
Thawn ash ta - stress is on the Thawn

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