how do you pronouce "feadog"
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Hi all
Just looking for some info on how to pronounce "Feadog". As a newbie whistle enthusiast I rang the local "Irish" shop here in South Australia to see what whistles they kept in stock. I mentioned I already had a Feadog in D and was wondering what else they had on offer. The mistake I made was that I pronounced Feadog as "fed-dock", which attracted howls of derisive laughter from the guy at the other end of the phone. He composed himself and said it's pronounced "fay-dough" ... like Play Dough. Is that the correct pronunciation? I thought afterwards I should have asked him how he would pronounce "customer service".
He also assured me that the Little Black Whistle is made by Clarke, not Waltons? Do Clarke make a LBW too?
thanks in anticipation!
Rob
Just looking for some info on how to pronounce "Feadog". As a newbie whistle enthusiast I rang the local "Irish" shop here in South Australia to see what whistles they kept in stock. I mentioned I already had a Feadog in D and was wondering what else they had on offer. The mistake I made was that I pronounced Feadog as "fed-dock", which attracted howls of derisive laughter from the guy at the other end of the phone. He composed himself and said it's pronounced "fay-dough" ... like Play Dough. Is that the correct pronunciation? I thought afterwards I should have asked him how he would pronounce "customer service".
He also assured me that the Little Black Whistle is made by Clarke, not Waltons? Do Clarke make a LBW too?
thanks in anticipation!
Rob
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Sorry to beat this to death, but would that be with a long 'a' or a short 'a' in the Fay syllable?On 2002-02-04 05:39, StevePower wrote:
Fah-doe-guh
But, run the doe sound into the guh sound. Emphasise the Fah. The word only has two syllables. <i>Fah</i>-doeguh.
I hope this works!
Steve Power
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On 2002-02-04 14:46, TnWhistler wrote:
According to an Irish dictionary I had and have loaned out, it was pronounced
fee-jog
I'm not sure where you got your dictionary, but you're probably as well that you loaned it out permanently.
I'm not an Irish speaker but I live in Ireland and I <i>very regularly</i> liaise with Irish speakers who work for the company who <i>Make</i> the Feadog whistle (Barbara and Lynette at Keynote) and who 'improve' it (Cillian O'Briain - a fluent Irish speaker, living in the Irish speaking part of Kerry).
Please be assured that my attempts at pronounciation are as close as you might come to hearing Feadog spoken, in Ireland.
Steve
p.s. I have made a number of translations, out of frienship on this board, and in private e-mails. However, I may not offer to translate again - as some people prefer their dictionary versions and it can be offensive to find that one's efforts - from the 'Waterfront' so to speak, are so easily disregarded.
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On 2002-02-04 14:46, TnWhistler wrote:
According to an Irish dictionary I had and have loaned out, it was pronounced
fee-jog
I'm not sure where you got your dictionary, but you're probably as well that you loaned it out permanently.
I'm not an Irish speaker but I live in Ireland and I <i>very regularly</i> liaise with Irish speakers who work for the company who <i>Make</i> the Feadog whistle (Barbara and Lynette at Keynote) and who 'improve' it (Cillian O'Briain - a fluent Irish speaker, living in the Irish speaking part of Kerry).
Please be assured that my attempts at pronounciation are as close as you might come to hearing Feadog spoken, in Ireland.
Steve
p.s. I have made a number of translations, out of frienship on this board, and in private e-mails. However, I may not offer to translate again - as some people prefer their dictionary versions and it can be offensive to find that one's efforts - from the 'Waterfront' so to speak, are so easily disregarded.
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Years ago, I wrote a piece on pronunciation of Gaelic words, as WyoBadger points out above. It was a satirical take on my feeling that the correlation between how Gaelic words are spelled and how we English-speakers THINK they ought to sound is rather poor. I had the piece on chiff & fipple for some time, but it offended a few people who wrote me very kind notes explaining why they took offense. SO, I took it off the site but I occasionally dust it off, at the risk of offending more people. Here it is:
Uncle Dale's Guide to Pronunciation of Gaelic
On the newsgroup rec.music.celtic, someone posted a request for help pronouncing the Gaelic word, Claddagh. This was my posted response:
It's really very simple, like all Gaelic pronunciations:
1. The "Cl" at the beginning is pronounced "Firz'
2. The "a" is actually pronounced like the English phoneme
"arrrgh"
3. "d" is normally pronounced "d", but the double d ("dd") is
pronounced "ger-ger"
4. And, of course, the "agh" is prounounced "eye-loo"
5. So, putting it all together, the word "Claddagh" is
pronounced:
"Firz-arrrgh-ger-ger-eye-loo"
See, simple!!
Dale
P.S. Using these and other rules, "Feadog" would be pronounced "Hahg-lin-poolin-ahr."
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Uncle Dale's Guide to Pronunciation of Gaelic
On the newsgroup rec.music.celtic, someone posted a request for help pronouncing the Gaelic word, Claddagh. This was my posted response:
It's really very simple, like all Gaelic pronunciations:
1. The "Cl" at the beginning is pronounced "Firz'
2. The "a" is actually pronounced like the English phoneme
"arrrgh"
3. "d" is normally pronounced "d", but the double d ("dd") is
pronounced "ger-ger"
4. And, of course, the "agh" is prounounced "eye-loo"
5. So, putting it all together, the word "Claddagh" is
pronounced:
"Firz-arrrgh-ger-ger-eye-loo"
See, simple!!
Dale
P.S. Using these and other rules, "Feadog" would be pronounced "Hahg-lin-poolin-ahr."
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