Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Aberlour a'bunadh...
From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@direcway.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:09:34 -0400
References: <000501c38e03$e0ea3f80$22256a44@ph.cox.net> <3F84C52E.E2E6F816@pacbell.net> <3.0.2.32.20031009194640.00d891f8@pop.infionline.net>

Yeah, I can pronounce that, Marc.............

From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infionline.net>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Aberlour a'bunadh...


 Seth Rosner wrote:
> This a'bunadh
>(wish I knew how to pronounce it) is qualitatively different.

Aperlohr uh bun-akh would be close enough.

.......it's the "kh" sound that get you.

  Gaelic has a lot of the same
sounds as do many Middle Eastern languages, including Arabic and Hebrew.

..........not surprising; Robert Graves' The White Goddess traces all sorts
of Celtic language, myth and derived culture to Mesopotamian and eastern
Mediterranean cultures.

Thanks, Marc.

Seth          LaK 9

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