{"id":500,"date":"2011-02-01T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T15:43:09","slug":"bridget-phonetically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/bridget-phonetically\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget, phonetically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend Bill Seligman has reminded me that he did a phonetic transliteration of the Hymn to Bridget from Irish to English.<\/p>\n<p>As he said, now we can all mispronounce the Irish together!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Hymn to Bridget<br \/>\n\u00a9 1983, 2001 c.e.<br \/>\nwords by Isaac Bonewits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\nA Bhrid, \u00e1r gcro\u00ed, an-gheal Bheanr\u00edon;<br \/>\nlo de thoil \u00e9 beannachta sinn.<br \/>\nIs sinn bhur leana\u00ed, is tu \u00e1r mama\u00ed;<br \/>\nb\u00ed ag isteacht d\u00fainn mar sin.<br \/>\nIs tu an coire, anois in\u00e1r doire;<br \/>\na Bhean-Feasa tinf\u00edm orainn.<br \/>\nA thine ghr\u00e1, a thine bheatha;<br \/>\nlo de thoil \u00e9 ag teacht Bhrid d\u00fainn!<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<strong>Ah Vreed ar gree, on-yall Vahn-reen;<br \/>\nlow de hoil eh ban-ach-ta sheen.<br \/>\nIss sheen vur lah-nee, iss too ar mam-way;<br \/>\nbee ogg ish-tacht dween mar shin.<br \/>\nIss too an keer-eh, ah-neesh ee-nar deer-eh;<br \/>\nah Vahn-Feysa tin-feem ah-reen.<br \/>\nAh hin-eh grah, ah hin-eh vya;<br \/>\nlow de hoil eh ogg tacht Vreed dween!<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p><em>Transliteration by Bill Seligman; derived from the Gaelic pronunciation guide at http: \/\/www.standingstones.com\/gaelpron.html and listening to Isaac\u2019s performance in \u201cBe Pagan Once Again.\u201d Note that the \u201cch\u201d is always pronounced as in \u201cBach\u201d or \u201cchutzpah.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much, Bill.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend Bill Seligman has reminded me that he did a phonetic transliteration of the Hymn to Bridget from Irish to English. As he said, now we can all mispronounce the Irish together! A Hymn to Bridget \u00a9 1983, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/bridget-phonetically\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10,19,15],"tags":[206,205,207,152],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druidicceltic","category-pagan-stuff","category-polytheological-philosophical","category-the-gods","tag-bridget","tag-imbolc","tag-irish","tag-isaac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}