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		 <note><p>Description of how and why changes were made</p></note>
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<text><body><div><p><span>NOTES AND QUERIES</span></p>
<lb n="1"/>
<lb n="2"/><p><span>(308.) Mac Tíre is not mistaken in the supposition</span>
<lb n="3"/><span>that dálta (see July Irisleabhar) is found in Connacht.</span>
<lb n="4"/><span>In Aran, at any rate, it is in quite common use, but is</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>there pronounced  neither dálta nor dáltha, but dalta.</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>Examples:— ní hé dalta an lae indé é (not like yesterday,</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>not as on yesterday); a dhalta an fhir úd (as in the case </span>
<lb n="8"/><span>of that man); ní hé do dhalta fhéin é ('tis not as with</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>yoursealf).  I heard an Aran man say: “Níl an t-airgead</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>sin agam anois, acht cuirfidh mé 'in na(=chum na)</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>tighe agat é.  Ní hé dalta Phádraig é: gheall sé go blasda</span></p>
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<pb n="273"/>
<div><lb n="12"/><p><span>agus is fada gur íoc sé.”  The word fearacht has exactly </span>
<lb n="13"/><span>the same meaning and construction as dalta, and is com-</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>moner in Aran. — P. H. MacPhiaris.</span></p>
<lb n="15"/>
<lb n="16"/><p><span>The thing which frightens me most is the prospect</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>which “D. B. H. ” holds out of ommiting the “accents”</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>eventually.  They are not accents: they are quantity-marks.</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>There are no accents in Irish.  Sometimes the</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>quantity-mark corresponds to the accent.  Sometimes it</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>does not.  They can never be omitted without the most</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>dire confusion.  If you omit them, how will you</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>distinguish the following words?</span></p>
<lb n="24"/>
<lb n="25"/><p><span>bas, the palm, bás, death</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>cas, gnarled, cás, a case.</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>fan, stop; fán, a wandering.</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>speir, the heel; spéir, the sky.</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>rath, prosperity; ráth, a fort.</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>ros, flax-seed; rós, a rose.</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>min, meal; mín, fine.</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>geire, of tallow; géire, sharpness.</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>sin, that; sín, stretch.</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>sin é! Where! sín é, stretch it.</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>sin lámh, there is a hand; sín lámh, stretch a hand,</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>&c, &c.</span></p>
<lb n="37"/>
<lb n="38"/><p><span>The fact is, our quantity-marks constitute one of the</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>most exquisite beauties our language possesses.  To in-</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>terfere with them would mean wreck and ruin.</span></p>
<lb n="41"/>
<lb n="42"/><p><span>PEADAR UA LAOGHAIRE.</span></p>
<lb n="43"/>
<lb n="44"/><p><span>(310.) Snaidhm ar b.  (Nóta 299).  Is fad'ó chuala an</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>sgeul sain i gCiarraidhe, ach i n-ionad Snaidhm ar b., sé</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>ainm a bhi ar an leannán, Brobadóir.  Is mar seo</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>chuireadh lucht an leasa fá'n abhrán a bhi ghá ghabháil</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>acu:-</span></p>
<lb n="49"/>
<lb n="50"/><p><span>“Dá mbeadh a fhios ag bean an lín seo</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>“Gur Brobadóir atá ghá shníomh di,</span>
<lb n="52"/><span>“Is ró-bhreagh mar chodalóch sí an oidhche."</span></p>
<lb n="53"/>
<lb n="54"/><p><span>Ní fuláir nó bhí file 'sa lios.</span></p>
<lb n="55"/>
<lb n="56"/><p><span>D. O'F.</span></p>
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<lb n="58"/><p/></div></body></text></TEI>
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