Breandán wrote:
Gumbi wrote:
More like air-eh
Gumbi wrote:
Would it be fair to call it a schwa? or am I misusing the word?
Yes. More precisely, the slender "schwa" is called "schwee". It is midway between eh and ih, as you've indicated in your correction.
Non-native speakers tend to pronounce both shwee and schwa as uh.
This goes well over my head, all I know is I'm well able to promounce Éire correctly! Aplogies if i'm not able to represent them using English phonetics. I would pronounce eh as "a" in the same way as some one would say abc.. (alphabet)
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I'm familiar with Munster Irish/ Gaolainn na Mumhan (GM) and the Official Standard/an Caighdeán Oifigiúil (CO)
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I'm sure you can pronounce it correctly