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Currer Bell
08-04-2012, 06:03 PM
Hello,
Not sure if this is the right area to post, strictly speaking, but this is driving me crazy!
How does one correctly pronounce the words in this poem's title?:
"The Bothie of Tober-Na-Vuolich."
Yes, I am obsessing over this...so, if anyone can help me out, I (and my brain) would be most grateful!
Charles Darnay
08-04-2012, 10:51 PM
Hello,
Not sure if this is the right area to post, strictly speaking, but this is driving me crazy!
How does one correctly pronounce the words in this poem's title?:
"The Bothie of Tober-Na-Vuolich."
Yes, I am obsessing over this...so, if anyone can help me out, I (and my brain) would be most grateful!
I think it is thus. I am fairly certain based on my familiarity with Gaelic, but not percent.
Bothie - long "o" as in "boat" and slender "th" as in "thin"
Tober - Long "o" but not as long as Bothie
Vuolich - The "ch" is like the "ch" in Bach, or loch
kiki1982
08-05-2012, 05:31 AM
Or, what could help, is listen to a recording of David Tennant. Not Doctor Who, because that wasn't his normal way of ^peaking, but an interview or something. He's Glaswegian and speaks this way.
Currer Bell
08-06-2012, 02:21 PM
Thank you Charles and Kiki!
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