Learning Irish

Gaeilge Fhoghlaim

(Learning Irish)

Sure it's a terrible difficult tongue they have, the Irish. Only 18 letters plus a few more borrowed in order to spell some foreign and adopted words. And it seems they've lost a vowel somewhere. But consonants? Those can be slender as a gazelle's leg or broad as a trawler's beam end. And which is it to be, you might ask? Well 'en, that depends on who's the vowel nearby.

Just for reference here's the lot of them:  a b c d e f g h i l m n o p r s t u

And if you're looking for a "v" or a "w" just put a couple of consonants together and make the pair slender or broad. That seems to do the trick.