M had a mango lassi and mango ice cream at India Palace tonight. Then we came home and logged into our library's language learning center (Mángo!) to learn a little about the Irish language. In lesson 1, we learned about greetings:
"Dia duit, cen chaoi a bhfuil tú which is the formal way to say "Hello, how are you?"
and the informal "Haigh!" (which is pronounced like and means the same as the English "Hi!").
The pronunciation for the formal greeting is not at all what I would have expected. It's:
Dee-u rit, ken khee u WIL too?
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