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Old 11-30-2003, 03:13 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Although Gaelic wins hands down for the weirdest transliterations ever.[/quoteost_uid0]

Aoidhgheann: Ian.

Welsh has some strange letter combinations as well:
Llwyd = "kloo-id," more or less. W is a vowel sometimes. A valley is a coomb (cwm).

I really wanna know who transliterated the Celtic languages into English. Probably some illiterate Sassenach git.[/colorost_uid0]
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