LL-L "Folklore" 2004.10.27 (05) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2004.10.26 (04) [E]


Henry Pijffers made reference to:
"I read a book (or 2) by Greg Bear about the Sidhe. In his book, he
described the pronunciation as something like "shdee" (I read the Dutch
version, where he wrote "sjdie", if I remember correctly). Is that the
correct pronunciation?"

The correct pronunciation is ['Si:], as in Eng. _she_ as Henry reports.
Modern Irish orthography acknowledges this pronunciation, and the confusion
comes about when earlier spellings, reflecting an archaic pronunciation
['Si:G@] or ['Si:G] or ['Si:@] from an original *side ['Si:dZ@], are used.

Go raibh maith agaibh,

Criostóir.

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