Baroness Faulkner on Women’s Hour now

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Plopping and running as out and about. Started about 10.20 or so

Well that's the first time I've listened to WH in about 100 years!

KF is the very embodiment of resilience. She is so strong. Her answers were great. Very reasoned and principled. She was excellent. So impressively clear.

Thanks for the heads-up, OP.

Rhotic 'r's 'r' us😄
Irish Gaelic does not 'like' two consonants one after the other, and puts a vowel in between. Usually. Sometimes. Somebody is bound to come up with an exception😒
This survives in Hiberno-English as in 'fillum' for film.
'Modh-er-in' for 'modern' sounds very likely, Emilesgran.

My local accent would have a very short 'a' in Daleks, UtopiaPlanitia, but I can hear it being lengthened in other accents.

PS Baroness Falkner is a wonderful and inspiring woman, who deserves better than having her thread derailed by linguistics - but we just can't help ourselves, can we?

Yes there is a glide vowel in Irish between R and N / M and also L / M . Not sure that's the etymologists term but for example Colm is said something like Collum. Hence ' fillum' I suppose.

Back on topic : yes the Baroness shows great forbearance!

The ‘ren’ or ‘ran’ pronunciation actually matches the original Irish pronunciation of the name better than ‘ern’ does. It’s the choice of ‘ern’ for the anglicised spelling of the name’s final syllable’s that’s odd really. But anglicised spellings were often off like that and sometimes the pronunciation of a name changed over the years to reflect the new English spelling and sometimes it didn’t.
www.libraryireland.com/names/mag/mag-shamhradhain-mag-shamhrain.php

I always think that the extra “r” after a long a is a Southern English thing - calling drawers drawr-ers etc. I once had a very weird conversation with someone who I thought was looking for car keys, but in the end it turned out to be something khaki!!

I do admit to being irrational about it. Carol, now departed from BBC Breakfast weather always said south-ren and I didn’t mind because she’s so nice .