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 Post subject: too hot
PostPosted: Wed 25 Jul 2012 2:33 pm 
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dia daoibh a chairde gaeil, for the life of me i cant remember, am i correct in thinking that "too hot" is "róthé" with the h? the h is the part that is messing me around

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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Wed 25 Jul 2012 2:43 pm 
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róthe

Generally speaking the h is used in compound words (or words with prefixes) when the DNTLS rule doesn't get in the way: seanmháthair but seanduine. There are exceptions like coiscéim and fótagraf.


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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Wed 25 Jul 2012 3:03 pm 
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Is is usual to write compounds with "ró" solid like that, or would the hyphenated form (ró-the) be more common?

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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Wed 25 Jul 2012 3:06 pm 
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No hyphen usually in standard Irish. You will regularly see a hyphen used but you won't find many in the dictionary, except for the likes of ró-óg or perhaps a small number of other cases to avoid confusion in pronounciation.


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 Post subject: Re: too hot
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Scooby wrote:
No hyphen usually in standard Irish. You will regularly see a hyphen used but you won't find many in the dictionary, except for the likes of ró-óg or perhaps a small number of other cases to avoid confusion in pronounciation.


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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Wed 25 Jul 2012 5:48 pm 
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Normally, the hyphen is only used when the 2nd element begins with a vowel (ró-óg, ró-álainn...), or sometimes, as Scooby said, to avoid confusions about pronunciation. But in most cases, before a consonant, you don't use any hyphen in the modern spelling: róthe, rófhuar, róbhreá, ródhorcha....

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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Wed 25 Jul 2012 8:45 pm 
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Which is why I was scrabbling around trying to think what rómhall meant the other day in one of L's comments, and then the penny suddenly dropped. ;)


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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012 12:13 am 
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franc 91 wrote:
Which is why I was scrabbling around trying to think what rómhall meant the other day in one of L's comments, and then the penny suddenly dropped. ;)
Why are we still dropping and spending pennies and not cents....? :S Sorry, slightly OT!

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 Post subject: Re: too hot
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Didn't/don't the Americans regularly refer to a single cent as a penny?


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 Post subject: Re: too hot
PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012 10:09 am 
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By the way, when I was young I swallowed a penny (thankfully not one of those bigger old ones). I went to the doctor who said it should pass naturally through my body and would reappear when I spent a penny! (really)

The doctor called by the next day to see how I was. No change!!! (Okay, that bit didn't happen)

I was fine in the end, but a bit sore on the whole. :darklaugh:


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