How Do You Pronounce…?
Twice in the last week IrishKC.com has received visitors asking how do you pronounce “pogues”.
[ SEE ALSO:
How Do You Pronounce Samhain? ]
You may laugh but if people are asking it then it’s a fair question.
And for those people who are asking the answer is that you pronounce “pogues” so that it rhymes with “rogues”.
Of course “pogues” isn’t a real word; it’s a plural of an anglicisation of an Irish word - the word as Gaelige for “kiss” - póg. The word póg is pronounced so that it rhymes with “rogue”.
So you could argue that “pogues” means “kisses” - but I prefer to think of pluralised anglicisations (as opposed to anglicized plurals) as the gobbledygook that it is.
Another of the “How Do You Pronounce…?” questions I’ve received in the last week here at Towers gan Fhéile is:
Q. How Do You Pronounce…”Thin Lizzy”?
But that is not a fair question; that is a bleedin’ stupid one.
More Pronunciations in the Irish world:
• How Do You Pronounce Samhain?
• how do u pronounce o’dowd?
• How Do Pronounce “Feis”?
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
How Do You Pronounce…”Thin Lizzy”?
Brilliant! That cheered me up no end. Makes me want to go dancing in the moonlight.
How do you pronounce the word cinniúint?