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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.
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.
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.
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.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Irish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Irish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Noun-self pronouns are a type of neopronoun that involve a noun being used as a personal pronoun. [21] Examples of noun-self pronouns include "vamp/vampself", "kitten/kittenself", and "doll/dollself". [4]
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).