DON'T PANIC: it's only Finnegans Wake - thunderword #8

A full tutorial on how to pronounce "Pappappapparrassannuaragheallachnatullaghmonganmacmacmacwhackfalltherdebblenonthedubblandaddydoodled" from page 332 of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

[@tomasetas]

well, this clears up so much confusion! lol thanks for the video.

[@anatolyyurkin6635]

Тема отца как главы рода трижды видна в слове: трижды отец сделал ошибку, проиграл спор с Дьяволом?

[@alannolan3514]

thanks adam, love the 3 PPP. sing a PSALM OF SIXPEAnce apocryphal of rhyme

[@yansong5100]

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[@bbvaghhjj6130]

what doest it mean lol

[@marcasdebarun6879]

... that is NOT how either someone from Dublin or anyone who knows Irish is going to pronounce 'Baile Átha Cliath' lollll

[@adamharvey2017]

I certainly never claimed to be either, and am always happy to hear when I’ve conjured a laugh. Can you provide a phonetic spelling?

[@marcasdebarun6879]

@@adamharvey2017 Soz don't mean to come off condescending or anything I was just tickled pink by it is all. Any average Irish person who by and large doesn't have any Irish will tell you something like ‘BAL-juh AW-ha KLEE-uh’. Indeed that's close to the proper pronunciation in the language itself, however as a little factoid most Irish speakers contract the name in spoken speech (five syllables is tough for a city you tend to be talking about a lot), to something like ‘blaw KLEE-uh’. You're absolutely right though about Dún Laoghaire. The Irish spelling is the official name, but people still used the Anglicised pronunciation in day-to-day speech (coming from the older Anglicised spelling Dunleary, which makes a lot more sense phonetically). An Irish speaker would pronounce Dún Laoghaire like ‘doon LEE-ruh’ or ‘doon LAY-ruh (btw if you know the IPA I can provide it for any of these). Regardless I still love the vids, I'm just beginning to embark on my Joyce journey have read A Portrait and Dubliners with the hope of tackling Ulysses next (and FW someday, maybe). I'll be sure to return to them once I get to FW!