Brendan if your going to talk about "alliterative and assonant" you may want to post over on the "potty talk" thread with cac, poo, etc. Those sound like cuss words to me. Your version sounds best to me and that should concern us all given my shooting from the hip Irish.

True!

hey breandan

i love the way yours sounds...and i think "far from sorrows" is just as beautiful a phrase...maybe even better....than "far from worries"

could you also pronounce it
ih VAAD oh VOOR-hee?

i always thought the bh sound was a "v" but someone on this thread posted that depending on dialect /location it could also be a "w" sound, as you have described...what do you think....thanks again for helping out a distant canadian cousin!

In Munster they use a "v" sound for both broad and slender "bh," but in Ulster and Connacht a broad "bh" is pronounced as "w."

Redwolf

can someone show me how both phrases would be written in traditional gaelic script?

i bhfad ó bhuarthaí and I gcéin ón gcian

i see sometimes bh is writen as a b with a dot above it....


i am having a very hard time choosing between these....they are both great!

i ḃfad ó ḃuarṫaí

i gcéin ón gcian

(Note that i's have no dots, and only an accent when lengthened.)

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