Prof Aoife M. Foley
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My name as Gaeilge is Aoife Ní Fhoghlú. In Irish, surnames change depending on gender, Ó Foghlú (descendant of) becomes Ní Fhoghlú for a woman, and the séimhiú softens the “F” to “Fh” (which is silent). That’s why it’s pronounced more like Nee Oh-loo. As Translations by Brian Friel shows Irish names often have differently spelt versions because of anglicisation and translation over time. Irish originally used an 18-letter alphabet (A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U) and didn’t include letters like “z” because those sounds weren’t needed. Instead of adding new letters, Irish changes sounds using a feature called a séimhiú (pronounced shay-voo), which softens a consonant. Long ago, this was shown with a dot above the letter (like ḃ, ċ, ḋ), but when printing became more common, it was replaced with an “h” after the letter (bh, ch, dh), which is what we still use today. Hiberno-English speakers and Irish people will know there’s no “z” in the Irish (Gaeilge) alphabet, so when we’re calling out a phone number (or any numbers, really), we tend to say “oh” for zero. It’s a thing 👇🤭☘️ The typeset of the letters is or was also different. 🫶🏻🐐👇
Prof Aoife M. Foley50,520 views • 5 months ago
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