It's wild that 20+ year old free "eircom" website I lost login access to after ceasing to be a customer (nevermind that eircom no longer exists) is still live. Is there some server running in someone's shed somewhere? They scrubbed all the free eircom email addresses but left these sites up for 2 decades? #mastodaoine
“Siobhan is pronounced exactly as it's spelt in irish. There's no disconnect between spelling and pronunciation, unless you force a different languages pronunciation on it.”
cúnla ní b moss (@nibmoss):
“GUYS MERRIAM-WEBSTER DELETED THE TWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THE IRISH!!!!!!!” (2/2)
@angeidheal@gaidhlig I was puzzled by this until I realised that my brain had seen 'gu nàdarra', taken a left turn past Old English nǣdre and Welsh nadroedd, and arrived at 'nathair'. I wasn't sure how I'd wish snakes a safe journey, either.
The National: Glasgow airport has been told to act after a sign for a restaurant appeared to mix up Irish and Scottish Gaelic… The slogan on the sign currently reads “An bhfuil ocras ort?” with [Murdo] MacSween explaining it should instead say “A bheil an t-acras ort?”
@angeidheal@gaidhlig@gaeilge Bidh sin a' tachairt gu tric ann an Glaschu. Tha 'fáilte' sgrìobhte air na soidhnichean aig a' mhosg mheadhain agus an long àrd... ged a tha 'fáilte' fada nas fhaisge air Gàidhlig na 'an bhfuil ocras'...
Dear people of #Galway, this weekend there will be an Tóstal festival in #Salthill. Please come to see the traditional currach racing and the parade of our beauties, the Galway Hookers. If you participate in #darknessintolight2024, you'll also be able to see the Hookers sailing into the sunrise in support of the cause.
Please see the schedule (it seems like tiny traders market was canceled, but everything is according to the plan.