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That is less Hiberno-English and more Gaelic. Niamh and Siobhán are Irish names following Irish orthography.
by barrkel 3y ago
That is less Hiberno-English and more Gaelic. Niamh and Siobhán are Irish names following Irish orthography.
- saalweachter 3y agoI always felt like Gaelic spelling was the result of someone hearing about the written language, thinking it was a fantastic idea, and then rushing off to write down all the words without waiting to get all the details about how writing was supposed to work.
- CalRobert 3y agoWorth noting that "Gaelic" is a group of languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goidelic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goidelic_languages One of those languages is Irish. It used to be written in its own type - which I personally find beautiful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_type
- Supernaut 3y agoYou should have left out the first sentence! Someone once sent me a link to a tooth-grindingly annoying performance by an English "comedian", where he expressed irritation and disbelief at what he saw as a preposterous disconnect between the spelling of indigenous Irish names and the way they are pronounced. As if the Irish language was really merely a dialect of English, and we're all just being awkward over here. Someone who knows English but not Irish will have no idea how to pronounce "Niamh", because it's not a word from the English language. As you say, it's an Irish name that follows Irish orthography.