How do you pronounce the word abhras?

Is it pronounced exactly like the word amhras, maybe? Or does the "bh" sound like a "v" in this word?

They're pronounced the same.

I'll try and do recording of the chapters tomorrow, but I'm not a Gaeltacht speaker so
don't take what I sound like as necessarily correct.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

I thought it was the same as carding. But this video shows the difference. Although the end result is the same as carding. ("cardáil" locally).

http://youtu.be/Ae6aZwswrWs?t=2m13s

My father was a weaver. Although that work was done before my time I often heard about it at home. My mother was great at knitting and crocheting.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Thanks for the help!

That's all of the questions I've got for Part 3
Now comes the hard part: trying to learn everything by Wednesday!

I think the difference is that the a in amhras is a kind of nasally "ow" sound, spoken through the nose as if you've got a slight cold. Abhras is similar, but there is no nasal quality to the "ow."

But a lot of dialects have lost the nasal vowels, so words like abhras and amhras often sound the same nowadays.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Mh and bh are also distinguished this way in parts of Connemara (Carna? but not an Cheathrú Rua). Although amhras is aimhreas there, other words do show this distinction.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Of course you are correct, traditionally one had a nasal "ow" sound and the other didn't.

However nowadays, as you said, the distinction is quite rare. I haven't heard it in Cork. Brian Ó Cuív said (in 1944) that it was feature of previous generations. It was already "half-gone" in the generation born in the 1870s. However it's still around in Kerry, I heard the nasal vowels from a few people in Kerry, near Dún Chaoin, not the rest of the peninsula though.

I'll have the new notes up tomorrow, hopefully not too late. I'll also update the old ones with Bríd's translation.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Do you ever sleep?

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No! I am powered directly by my Fíor-Ghael spirit and need no sleep!

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

I'll have some of what he's having!!

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