Saturday: Into the country

[scarlettina]

Saturday morning, we got up, packed our bags, had breakfast, and prepared to be picked up by our driver, Donal Moyhnihan, who was to be our guide for the next 8 days. We had no idea what to expect. The person who arrived was probably somewhere between my and Elizabeth’s ages, a tall, very slim man with lines on his face, a head of thinning, graying

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[herself_nyc]

There's a short story by Brian Friel about the German war dead graves in Ireland, which I heard recently read out loud and discussed by the writer Kevin Barry on the New Yorker Fiction podcast.
http://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/kevin-barry-reads-brian-friel

[mevennen]

I would pronounce it 'Glendaluff', in fact. Oh English, what are you like?

The Wicklow mountains are stunning.

[scarlettina]

A third pronunciation? Yes, English is troublemaking!

[mevennen]

Throughout the thought is constant, though! No wonder overseas students despair of the pronunciation!

[scarlettina]

Jo--and I correct myself again because I read your response too quickly. You are correct. I have much to learn here.