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Éire has been incorporated into the names of Irish commercial and social entities, such as Eir (formerly Eircom and Telecom Éireann) and its former mobile phone network, Eircell. [24] Ireland's postal code system is known as Eircode. In 2006 the Irish electricity network was devolved to EirGrid.
A sample construction is Eir aura ("Eir of riches"), occurring in Gísla saga. [9] The name is already used in this way by the 10th century poets Kormákr Ögmundarson and Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld. [10] Similarly, the name Eir is used in a woman kenning in a runic inscription inscribed on a stick from Bergen, Norway around the year 1300. The ...
In May 1991, a MOO programmer, Roger Crew, added "spivak" as a gender setting for players on LambdaMOO, causing the game to refer to such players with the pronouns e, em, eir, eirs, emself. The setting was added along with several other "fake genders" in order to test changes to the software's pronoun code, and was left in place as a novelty.
Ey wants to bring eir camera to capture the garden for emself! ae/aer (commonly pronounced aye/air) Ae is my best friend — most of aer’s weekday evenings are spent at my house.
The pronunciation of vowels in Irish is mostly predictable from the following rules: Unstressed short vowels are generally reduced to /ə/. e is silent before a broad vowel. i is silent before u, ú and after a vowel (except sometimes in ei, oi, ui ). io, oi, ui have multiple pronunciations that depend on adjacent consonants.
In the late 19th century, the Edinburgh football club Hibernian F.C. adopted Erin Go Bragh as their motto [14] and it adorned their shirts accordingly. Founded in 1875 by Edinburgh Irishmen and the local Catholic Church, St Patrick's, the club's shirts included a gold harp set on a green background.
The effective interest rate (EIR), effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the percentage of interest on a loan or financial product if compound interest accumulates in periods different than a year. [1] It is the compound interest payable annually in arrears, based on the nominal interest rate ...
EIR's, or entrepreneurs in residence were once found mostly at venture capital firms, but the role has expanded and you can now find them at a variety of companies - including tech companies. At a law firm, the entrepreneur in residence provides professional services to the firm's clients. Law firms may offer the advisory service to ...