Gaelic Pronunciation

"AndyP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced in distinguished mountaineering circles without causing offence or amusement. Thought
I'd pass that on in case it's of any interest to anyone.

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Many thanks. A fantastic resource. Now I understand why nobody understood me!!

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"AndyP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced in distinguished mountaineering circles

without

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causing offence or amusement. Thought I'd pass that on in case it's of

any

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interest to anyone.

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Great site. Thanks

Rory

Rodders said:

Great site. Thanks

Rory

I agree - good site and I use it a lot, but don't necessarily expect many people to understand
attempts to reproduce the gaelic sounds either - in my experience most (lowland?) Scots have as much
trouble pronouncing the Gaelic as a Sassenach like me! You're as likely to be met by a blank stare
at "Skoor naaan Keroianan" as you are calling it "Chrysanthemum" !

Paul Leigh Lancs

"Paul Richardson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I agree - good site and I use it a lot, but don't necessarily expect many people to understand
attempts to reproduce the gaelic sounds either - in my experience most (lowland?) Scots have as
much trouble pronouncing the Gaelic as a Sassenach like me! You're as likely to be met by a blank
stare at "Skoor naaan Keroianan" as you are calling it "Chrysanthemum" !

Sorry, totally disagree with you there. If lowland Scots have a problem with Gaelic it's reading and
understanding (no small part of the language!) however once demonstrated, the pronounciation is
straightforward. Not so for mere Sassenachs :-)

KRO

AndyP said:

Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced

Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:23:18 +0000, Boo <boo@spam_me_no_spam.net>

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Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

It's not immediately obvious. There's a button at the top of each hill description page, just
underneath the name of the hill, labelled Pronunciation.

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Sorry, totally disagree with you there. If lowland Scots have a problem
with Gaelic it's reading and understanding (no small part of the language!)
however once demonstrated, the pronounciation is straightforward.
Not so for mere Sassenachs :-)

KRO

Key there is "once demonstrated" - must mean that most of the Glaswegians I have met in
bothies/bunkhouses have never had the demonstration, cos they sure pronounce the hills names just as
haphazardly as we English!

:-))

Paul

"AndyP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced in distinguished mountaineering circles without causing offence or amusement. Thought
I'd pass that on in case it's of any interest to anyone.

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Excellent - thank you. Do you know of any similar sites that offer pronounciation for Welsh hills?

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Boo boo@spam_me_no_spam.net said:

Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

It's not immediately obvious. There's a button at the top of each hill description page, just
underneath the name of the hill, labelled Pronunciation.

Excellent for us English settlers!

Paul Richardson said:

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Sorry, totally disagree with you there. If lowland Scots have a problem with Gaelic it's reading
and understanding (no small part of the language!) however once demonstrated, the pronounciation
is straightforward. Not so for mere Sassenachs :-)

KRO

Key there is "once demonstrated" - must mean that most of the Glaswegians I have met in
bothies/bunkhouses have never had the demonstration, cos they sure pronounce the hills names just
as haphazardly as we English!

:-))

Paul

Of course Sassenach also used to mean to Lowlanders or non-Gaelic speakers and not just to
the English.

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Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced in distinguished mountaineering circles without causing offence or amusement. Thought
I'd pass that on in case it's of any interest to anyone.

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Do you know of any other web sites

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"AndyP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced in distinguished mountaineering circles

without

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causing offence or amusement. Thought I'd pass that on in case it's of

any

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interest to anyone.

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Great site. Thanks

Rory

Yep gotta agree really good, got any more useful sites?

Simon Caldwell <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Boo boo@spam_me_no_spam.net said:

Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

It's not immediately obvious. There's a button at the top of each hill description page, just
underneath the name of the hill, labelled Pronunciation.

good information

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Boo boo@spam_me_no_spam.net said:

Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

It's not immediately obvious. There's a button at the top of each hill description page, just
underneath the name of the hill, labelled Pronunciation.

good information. do you know of any more sites like this?

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"Paul Richardson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I agree - good site and I use it a lot, but don't necessarily expect many people to understand
attempts to reproduce the gaelic sounds either - in my experience most (lowland?) Scots have as
much trouble pronouncing the Gaelic as a Sassenach like me! You're as likely to be met by a
blank stare at "Skoor naaan Keroianan" as you are calling it "Chrysanthemum" !

Sorry, totally disagree with you there. If lowland Scots have a problem with Gaelic it's reading
and understanding (no small part of the language!) however once demonstrated, the pronounciation
is straightforward. Not so for mere Sassenachs :-)

KRO

i dont understand gaelic either as i am a lowlander

"AndyP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Just discovered that on the following site you can listen to how Scottish hills ought to be
pronounced in distinguished mountaineering circles without causing offence or amusement. Thought
I'd pass that on in case it's of any interest to anyone.

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The family next door to myself are really into Gaelic and their children go to a gaelic school in
Cumbernauld.They would appreciate any othe information you can forward for their benefit and th
schools. Hope you can assist. Frank

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Boo boo@spam_me_no_spam.net said:

Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

It's not immediately obvious. There's a button at the top of each hill description page, just
underneath the name of the hill, labelled Pronunciation.

Gaelic is not a hard language to learn so would everybody stop their moanin,i feel this site and
conversation is only being used to demean the situation and language so get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THOMAS HAINEY said:

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Boo boo@spam_me_no_spam.net said:

Forgive me for being stupid, but how exactly ?

It's not immediately obvious. There's a button at the top of each hill description page, just
underneath the name of the hill, labelled Pronunciation.

Gaelic is not a hard language to learn so would everybody stop their moanin,i feel this site and
conversation is only being used to demean the situation and language so get a
life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see Coatbridge College are joining in now. I can nearly see it from my house 🙂

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"THOMAS HAINEY" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Gaelic is not a hard language to learn so would everybody stop their moanin,i feel this site and
conversation is only being used to demean the situation and language so get a
life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forgive me Thomas but I have to ask why you think this site is demeaning Gaelic? I think you'll find
that a large majority of hillwalkers etc are non Gaelic speaking and are naturally inquisitive about
all these strange names they're walking up, through and over. As I've said, I don't speak Gaelic and
have used the website to find out the pronounciation of many a hill. You've overreacted somewhat.

KRO