Leinster Minor Hurling 2017

Started by burdizzo, October 07, 2016, 10:26:19 AM

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burdizzo

Leix play Offaly at home, and Kilkenny play Westmeath at home.

I think Laoise should be able to beat Offaly, but they should have this year, too, so who knows.

blueandwhite1

Burdizzo - apologies in advance for my pettiness  ;)

Every time you post you remind my of my Irish teacher.

Laois can legitimately be written as Laois or Leix but never Laoise without a possessive entity or somesuch. For example contae laoise, muintir laoise, port laoise or mainistir laoise are acceptable but Laoise on its own to describe the county is never acceptable. Apologies again! I have seen some clothing with Laoise on it too which is equally wrong. Grammar police on duty.


burdizzo

Fair enough. When I was younger, a lot of people wrote it as 'Laoise', and I suppose the habit has stuck a bit.
Also, it's often written in progrmmes as 'Laoise'.
However, I accept you may know more about this than me!

blueandwhite1

Quote from: burdizzo on October 10, 2016, 11:30:12 AM
Fair enough. When I was younger, a lot of people wrote it as 'Laoise', and I suppose the habit has stuck a bit.
Also, it's often written in progrmmes as 'Laoise'.
However, I accept you may know more about this than me!

I know very little and am no gaeilgeoir. Just passing on a piece of useless info that was beat into us!