{"id":12789,"date":"2016-08-24T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:31:14","slug":"irish-tongue-twisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12789","title":{"rendered":"Irish Tongue-Twisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I learnt some new tongue-twisters (<em>rabhl\u00f3ga<\/em>) in Irish. To those not familiar with Irish, almost an sentence in Irish might appear to be a bit of a tongue-twister, but these ones are particularly tricky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/irish\/rabhloga\/seachtsicin.mp3\">Seacht sic\u00edn ina seasamh sa sneachta l\u00e1 seaca.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Seven chickens standing in the snow on a frosty day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/irish\/rabhloga\/fearfeargach.mp3\">Fear feargach ag faire na farraige fuaire.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>An angry man watching the cold sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/irish\/rabhloga\/cheannaighcailin.mp3\">Cheannaigh cail\u00edn cliste cean\u00fail c\u00edste.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>A clever, affectionate girl bought a cake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/irish\/rabhloga\/cearcagpiocadh.mp3\">Cearc ag piocadh piobair de phl\u00e1ta Pheadair.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>A chicken is picking peppers from Peter&#8217;s plate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/irish\/rabhloga\/bhibeanbheag.mp3\">Bh\u00ed bean bheag bhocht breoite bruite leis an bhfuacht.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>The poor little sick women was scaled with the cold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/irish\/rabhloga\/rinnemaire.mp3\">Rinne M\u00e1ire g\u00e1ire gan n\u00e1ire ag an fhaire i nDoire anuraidh.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mary laughed shamelessly at the look-out in Derry last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have made recordings of my attempts to say them. If you can do better, please contact me.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of these on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/tonguetwisters\/irish.htm\">http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/tonguetwisters\/irish.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I learnt some new tongue-twisters (rabhl\u00f3ga) in Irish. To those not familiar with Irish, almost an sentence in Irish might appear to be a bit of a tongue-twister, but these ones are particularly tricky. Seacht sic\u00edn ina seasamh sa sneachta l\u00e1 seaca. Seven chickens standing in the snow on a frosty day. Fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}