Talk:Gort

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[edit] Pronunciation of Gort

The Irish Times, that bastion of Gaelicism, complained on Saturday about people pronouncing Gort to rhyme with hurt and advised "try rhyming it with DART". Now, in Munster Irish, gort more-or-less rhymes with (the English word) hurt: is this also true in Connacht Irish? If so, is the IT wrong? Or is the accepted English pronunciation different from the Irish? In which case, does it really rhyme with dart, cart, mart? Or with wart, sort? Or (for those without the horse-hoarse merger) with port, court? The DART bit looks like a (possibly ironic) bit of Dortspeak. jnestorius(talk) 15:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

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