[Spellyans] Box
Ray Chubb
ray at spyrys.org
Fri Oct 15 10:53:48 BST 2010
On 15 Hed 2010, at 10:46, Ken MacKinnon wrote:
> Ewan hag an gowetha-oll,
>
> Scottish Gaelic ciste sounds more like keesh-cha or keesh-chuh to my
> ears - but I doubt whether this advances the cause of Cornish
> pronunciation and spelling very far !
Probably not, but it may help to explain where Dr Ken George was
coming from.
>
> - Ken
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "ewan wilson" <butlerdunnit at ntlworld.com
> >
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Box
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>
>> The Scottish Gaelic pronunciations I have heard seem to alternate
>> between
>> 'Kish-chyi' and 'keesh-chyi' depending on the speaker. I'm not
>> sure if it's a dialectical thing or idialect. Maybe Ken has a
>> better idea?
>>
>> Excuse the non IPA sound guide!!
>>
>> Ewan.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com
>> >
>> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Box
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>>
>>> On 12 Oct 2010, at 10:06, Ray Chubb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would that be a long or short vowel?
>>>
>>> Irish "ciste" [ˈkʲɪʃtʲə] 'fund, treasury, kitty' has a short
>>> vowel.
>>>
>>> Irish "císte" [ˈkʲiːʃtʲə] 'cake' has a long vowel.
>>>
>>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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