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There are various guides to Old Irish pronunciation on the web, but not all of them agree e.g.- some say a slender 'd' is pronounced as in English 'joke', others that the difference is just that beween the 'd' in English 'dot' and 'deed'. Opinions differ about slender 'c' too.
Another example - lenition of 'g' and 'd'...one source has the lenited version of 'g' pronounced 'gh', and 'd' becoming 'th' as in English 'there'. Someone else says that both 'g' and 'd' are pronounced 'y' (as in English 'year') in initial position and elsewhere behave the same way as Irish 'b' and 'm'.
Who is correct? And does anyone really know? (I'm trying to read Murphy's 'Early Irish Lyrics'..)
Michael
