Bill Bryson Quote
But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised by separate committees, meeting in separate rooms, while implacably divided over some deep semantic issue. Try pronouncing geimhreadh, Gaelic for winter, and you will probably come up with something like gem-reed-uh. It is in fact gyeeryee. Beaudhchais (thank you) is bekkas and Ó Séaghda (Oh-seeg-da?) is simply O’Shea. Against this, the Welsh pronunciation of cwrw—koo-roo—begins to look positively self-evident.
Bill Bryson
But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised by separate committees, meeting in separate rooms, while implacably divided over some deep semantic issue. Try pronouncing geimhreadh, Gaelic for winter, and you will probably come up with something like gem-reed-uh. It is in fact gyeeryee. Beaudhchais (thank you) is bekkas and Ó Séaghda (Oh-seeg-da?) is simply O’Shea. Against this, the Welsh pronunciation of cwrw—koo-roo—begins to look positively self-evident.
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