Placename Pronunciations

[muppet]

How would non-Mayo people pronounce 'Lahardane'?

[ONeill]

How would non-Mayo people pronounce 'Lahardane'?

Addergoole.

[Orior]

Mayo.

Some people emphasize the 'May', while others emphasise 'o'.

[muppet]

How would non-Mayo people pronounce 'Lahardane'?

Addergoole.

Addergoogle

[ONeill]

Mayo.

Some people emphasize the 'May', while others emphasise 'o'.

I'd be heavy on the oh

[ONeill]

Slay go or Sly go

[armaghniac]

I doubt there's a single person in the world would say "Clog" the first time they come across it being spelled as "Cloghogue".

yet if you take the place clogh or clough and add hog (as in American) and say it reasonably quickly you get it spot on.

[Rossfan]

Mayo.

Some people emphasize the 'May', while others emphasise 'o'.

Mee yò with a stress on the yò is how us ordinary folk say it.
People who try to be lawdeedaw go short on both syllables.
Probably the 2 most mispronounced towns in Ireland are Elphin and Mohill.

[Eamonnca1]

Great thread.

Magheralin is pronounced by all the locals around Lurgan as "Maralin," stress on the last syllable.

Where I grew up there's these single-lane roads running through what used to be the bogs and they connect two main roads like a ladder. The small roads are called ramparts, because they were higher than the ground that was excavated (they've settled a bit since then). They have names like Pier Rampart, Hall Rampart, Bay Rampart etc. The "rampart" is pronounced by all the locals as "ramper."

[MoChara]

Mayo.

Some people emphasize the 'May', while others emphasise 'o'.

Mee yò with a stress on the yò is how us ordinary folk say it.
People who try to be lawdeedaw go short on both syllables.
Probably the 2 most mispronounced towns in Ireland are Elphin and Mohill.

I'd say that as Moehiiill, but I base that entirely on Christy Moore lol

[gallsman]

Keady

Kay-dee or Kee-dee?

[DennistheMenace]

Great thread.

Magheralin is pronounced by all the locals around Lurgan as "Maralin," stress on the last syllable.

Where I grew up there's these single-lane roads running through what used to be the bogs and they connect two main roads like a ladder. The small roads are called ramparts, because they were higher than the ground that was excavated (they've settled a bit since then). They have names like Pier Rampart, Hall Rampart, Bay Rampart etc. The "rampart" is pronounced by all the locals as "ramper."

The same as Magherafelt then.

[Rossfan]

Probably the 2 most mispronounced towns in Ireland are Elphin and Mohill.

I'd say that as Moehiiill, but I base that entirely on Christy Moore lol

First syllable pronounced as in the Gaeilge for "my" -- MO and then add the sound of the letter L.
Who the fcuk calls Shliigo "SLAYGO"?

[5 Sams]

Probably the 2 most mispronounced towns in Ireland are Elphin and Mohill.

I'd say that as Moehiiill, but I base that entirely on Christy Moore lol

First syllable pronounced as in the Gaeilge for "my" -- MO and then add the sound of the letter L.
Who the fcuk calls Shliigo "SLAYGO"?

Peter Canavan

[Tony Baloney]

Keady

Kay-dee or Kee-dee?

Kaydy in Armagh. Mostly Kee-dee elsewhere from what I have heard.