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How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

A REAL LIST OF ACTUAL NAMES AND THEIR (approximate) PRONUNCIATIONS: Siobhan — “sheh-VAWN” Aoife – “EE-fa” Aislin – “ASH-linn” Bláithín - “BLAW-heen” Caoimhe - “KEE-va” Eoghan - Owen (sometimes with a slight “y” at the beginning) Gráinne - “GRAW-nya” Iarfhlaith - “EER-lah” Méabh - “MAYV” Naomh or Niamh - “NEEV” Oisín - OSH-een or USH-een Órfhlaith - OR-la Odhrán - O-rawn Sinéad - shi-NAYD Tadhg - TIEG (like you’re saying “tie” or “Thai” with a G and the end)

rubyvroom

I work with an Aoife and I have been pronouncing it SO WRONG

breelandwalker

As someone who is trying and failing to learn Gaelic, I feel like is an accurate portrayal of my pain.

rohirric-hunter

I mean. It’s not like it has more or weirder pronunciation rules than English.

Gnat

Tough

Colonel

#language #celtic

dathen

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

#dracula #bram stoker #arthur conan doyle

dorizard-art

bickering duo but I bet they love judging other people together

#lu comics #lu legend #lu warriors

continent-of-wild-endeavor

zagreus

#star wars memes

athanza

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

#random reblogs #labyrinth

dailycatsblog

#cats

analog-television

i learned about a stupid looking bird today and i cant stop laughing

its called a crested satinbird (cnemophilus macgregorii)

bace-jeleren

batterbees

bob-artist

You can't just nerf him without admitting that he was too powerful in his original form

esthelle-wanders

@nerdzanddadz

#birds #random reblogs

aquilacalvitium

In all seriousness, Dracula is just as terrifying in his calm rage as he is when he's flying off the handle.

The way he just held the letter against the candle while smiling at Jonathan like "we both know exactly what this letter is and exactly why I'm destroying it."

A loud and beastly monster is terrifying for sure but in a scene like this, where both captor and captive know how powerless the latter is...

Yeah that's chilling, that's actually horrifying and I love this book so freaking much.

aquilacalvitium

Actually I'm not done talking about this

I literally cannot stress enough how this is the type of horror I EAT UP. I don't like gore or graphic murder or assault etc. That makes me really uncomfortable and upset.

It's this type of horror that I just LOVE. It's not the "I am actively being killed/hurt/traumatised," that gets me, it's the "I am trapped in a prison of terror and the person who's power I am under could at any moment kill/hurt/otherwise harm me and there's nothing I can do about it."

"I'm in a room with one exit and Dracula is between myself and the door. I know he's incredibly fast, incredibly strong and if he decided to hurt me there's nothing I could do about it. He also knows that I know this."

THAT is fucking terrifying and I eat it up.

#dracula