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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
I don't know Gaelic from garlic.
Welsh is phonetic for consonants but not vowels
Well, you could just about stretch the pronunciation for vowels but any language where you switch from long to short if the word has more than one syllable (other rules may apply) isn't phonetic enough for me  not to mention the whole u/i problem (pronounced exactly the same in south wales, and varyingly similar in north wales) . |
I stand by my statement, Mike. If you know the "rules" of either language, you will know how to pronounce any word from its spelling. The fact that those rules need to be learned, and differ from those of English, does not alter that.