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andyroo · **Joined:** Fri 26 Jun 2015 3:59 pm **Posts:** 25

Up until now, I thought that the initial r was always broad but, when I looked up the pronunciation of riamh on Teanglann, I saw that, in Connaught (or part of it, at least), riamh starts with a slender r.

http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/riamh

So I assume there are exceptions to this rule.

andyroo · **Joined:** Fri 26 Jun 2015 3:59 pm **Posts:** 25

I just thought that hearing an initial slender r in Irish was a very special moment, like running into a shiny Pokémon.

Labhrás · **Joined:** Sat 03 May 2014 4:01 pm **Posts:** 1979

andyroo wrote:

Up until now, I thought that the initial r was always broad but, when I looked up the pronunciation of riamh on Teanglann, I saw that, in Connaught (or part of it, at least), riamh starts with a slender r.

http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/riamh

So I assume there are exceptions to this rule.

isn't it usually ariamh in Connacht?

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2436

Teanglann.ie doesn't makes sense anyway, they ask people from the 3 main areas to pronounce loads of words that don't exist in their dialect. Like "Freisin" pronounced in Ulster Irish. Wtf ? Why not "fá dtaobh domh" in Munster Irish? That's nonsense. Same problem with the book "Fuaimeanna".

andyroo · **Joined:** Fri 26 Jun 2015 3:59 pm **Posts:** 25

Áááááááááá radht.

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