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In message , Rusty Hinge
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A Gaelic word, it means 'eagle', and is pronounced something like
'eeel-ugth'.

I've never been quite certain whether Gaelic orthography is even more
baroque that English, or whether it's just different.

It's certainly 'different'.

Aspirated letters at the beginning of a word tend to take a 'V' sound -
Bh***, Mh*** etc and in the middle or end it usually disappears
completely, as in bithidh - pronounced (more-or-less) as the English
'be' and ceilidh - cay-ley.

The rules are really quite rigid within the bounds of local dialect, and
various combinations of letters always (AFAIK) indicate the same sound -
none of this 'plough, enough, cough, dough' etc. as in English.

'C' is always hard, and there is no H, J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y or Z.

However, as Macalpine says under 'H':

H, h, This letter is not acknowledged in our alphabet; but to keep the
Gaelic in character with us, the Highlanders, who are THE BRAVEST and
/most singular/ people in the WHOLE WORLD, (as the Scots Times says,) it
is used, not only in every word, but in almost every syllable expressed
or understood.

HTH

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Rusty
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