Re:Q&A: Michael Lewis on the Politicians That Sank Ireland
by SteveC on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:32PM
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The 'Fáil' part is pronounced as 'fall'.
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Re:Q&A: Michael Lewis on the Politicians That Sank Ireland
by brc on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:36PM
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Fall is hardly a better ending than fail. Neither are particularly inspiring!
Edit : I read the article. Apparently the pronunciation is 'foil'. Slightly better.
Re:Q&A: Michael Lewis on the Politicians That Sank Ireland
by barrkel on Thursday February 17, 2011 @06:28PM
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A closer approximation would be "Faw-ill", emphasis on first "syllable", but as a diphthong sound that almost ends up sounding like a shortened "eel". In other words, the "a" sound starts out sounding like it does in "fall", but ends up a hair away from "e" in "eel".
That's how I'd say it with a Gaeltacht accent in Galway. People who learned Irish from a non-native speaker or a different area of the country will probably disagree.