[Sca-cooks] Re: Bubba

[Sue Clemenger]

Yeah, but you don't see us trying to do obscene things with double-dd's,
and far too much usage of "y," now do you? Some of those errant vowels
stayed and partied in Ireland, where the whiskey's better, anyway.....
--Maire (or, as the heralds know her and mispronounce her, Aodhnait
Maire Siobhan NiNuanain--there was an "Eibhlin" in there, too, but they
limited me to 3 *sniff*)

Ted Eisenstein wrote:
>
> >> (Obviously there was Welsh/Hawaiian contact, as the Hawaiians stole
> >> most of the vowels)
> Nope. Most of the vowels left of their own accord, preferring to spend time
> in far-off lands that saw the sun more often than clouds and snow.
> And the vowels that didn't go to Hawai'i went to Finland.
>
> >Not! It was the Irish who store all those nice shiny vowels! And for
> >what- for decoration! They aren't _using_ them or anything- they're just
> >there to mystify the field heralds...
> Nope. Irish Gaelic has a normal amount of vowels. It's all those weird
> _consonant_ combinations that confuses people. I mean, really! Where
> else do you find "bh" pronounced as "v"? Or was it "mh"? Hmmm. . .
>
> Alban