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Gumbi
PostPosted: Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:10 pm 
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Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.
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Bríd Mhór
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Gumbi wrote:
Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.



Usually yes.
But "gloinneachaí" is used as well (for both wearing glasses and drinking glasses).

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Gumbi
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Bríd Mhór wrote:
Gumbi wrote:
Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.



Usually yes.
But "gloinneachaí" is used as well (for both wearing glasses and drinking glasses).

Is that a dialectal spelling? I use gloiní, which can be used for glasses (of the wearing type); it can be used for drinking glasses, too, of course.
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Bríd Mhór
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Gumbi wrote:
Is that a dialectal spelling?

Yes. Probably Conamara only. :D

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Gumbi wrote:
Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.
I use spéaclaí also for better vision, but surely exactly the same issue arises - treated as plural in English and singular in Irish.

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Saoirse wrote:
Gumbi wrote:
Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.
I use spéaclaí also for better vision, but surely exactly the same issue arises - treated as plural in English and singular in Irish.

Actually, spéaclaí is plural. And FGB has péire spéaclaí for "a pair of spectacles".

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Gumbi
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Breandán wrote:
Saoirse wrote:
Gumbi wrote:
Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.
I use spéaclaí also for better vision, but surely exactly the same issue arises - treated as plural in English and singular in Irish.

Actually, spéaclaí is plural. And FGB has péire spéaclaí for "a pair of spectacles".

Yep. So the same issue is not present here :)
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Gumbi wrote:
Breandán wrote:
Saoirse wrote:
Gumbi wrote:
Well, for glasses we typically use which is "spéaclaí" which I would assume literally means "spectacles" so we don't have the same issue here.
I use spéaclaí also for better vision, but surely exactly the same issue arises - treated as plural in English and singular in Irish.

Actually, spéaclaí is plural. And FGB has péire spéaclaí for "a pair of spectacles".

Yep. So the same issue is not present here :)
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bácús = pot-oven
Your entries are becoming more sophisticated, a Bhríd - image, sound file, little bit of cultural history. Iontach!

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Bríd Mhór
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Saoirse wrote:
bácús = pot-oven
Your entries are becoming more sophisticated, a Bhríd - image, sound file, little bit of cultural history. Iontach!



Grma a Shaoirse :)

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