Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I went to a night class that was an introduction to Gaelic. The first half was on spelling and pronunciation and the other other half was on phrases. All I remember is Dia dhuit but I haven't meet anyone Irish who understand that phrase. the language is filled with odd rules like Maureen becomes [Waureen] in the genitive or dative case or something like that. And another thing I learn which I thought was interesting no one in Ireland is called Erin or Colleen. Oh yeah one more thing the "h" makes the letter before it silent, the "h" replace the diacritic circle on top of letter to mark consonances that had stopped being pronounce.