nifty to Microblog [email protected]English • 1 year agoCan you say shibbolethlemmy.worldimagemessage-square308fedilinkarrow-up11.19K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoShillelagh embodies this for me. None of my guesses were even close.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoLooks Irish or I guess Gaelic is the word in looking for? I’m guessing something weird like ji-gah-lo
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoLooks like Irish also has varying pronunciations with the same spelling, because the shillelagh -lagh sounds like lee, but in the name Shelagh (or Sheelagh) it’s lah.
Shillelagh embodies this for me. None of my guesses were even close.
Looks Irish or I guess Gaelic is the word in looking for? I’m guessing something weird like ji-gah-lo
It is Irish yeah, it’s shill-LAY-lee
Looks like Irish also has varying pronunciations with the same spelling, because the shillelagh -lagh sounds like lee, but in the name Shelagh (or Sheelagh) it’s lah.