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How do you pronounce "Curragh?" (Time out:0 days after 23-05-2004, 14:12)
Kur-uh
Kur-agk
Kur-AK
Kurrah
Sir-rah
Ba-na-na
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Vince278 is offline Vince278
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Kurrah.

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The only possible correct answer in this spurious poll can be ba-na-na!

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This gets my vote for best poll in quite some time.

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Kurrah.
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Kurrah
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Cur (as in "curdle") -ag (As in "bog", or "augh, I just spent precious minutes of my life posting in this thread!")
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Kur-ah
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One of the little rules of English orthography is that syllable-final -gh is silent, which suggests that we kurrah-sayers are right.

But where the heck does the word come from? I had never heard it before C3C.
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quote:
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This gets my vote for best poll in quite some time.

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Thanks.
Partial credit to a joke by Aqualung71.

Aqualung71 is offline Aqualung71
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quote:
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Thanks.
Partial credit to a joke by Aqualung71.


Thanks. Partial credit graciously accepted (yes, I'm still laughing)
Aqualung71 is offline Aqualung71
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quote:
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Cur (as in "curdle") -ag (As in "bog", or "augh, I just spent precious minutes of my life posting in this thread!")


But Klor, that would mean pronouncing it ker-og' (short for "Kermit the Frog"?)

Or even.....ker-or' (you mean, "augh" as in Evelyn Waugh" or Steve Waugh?)

Hmmm

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I said as in "bog"

The first.

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Banana...

I normally pronounce it "kur-ag". Sometimes it's "koor-ag". Depends on my mood.

It's nice to know how it's really supposed to be pronounced though.

Is there a similar thread on the pronounciation of Hwach'a?
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quote:
 Originally posted by Xorbon
Is there a similar thread on the pronounciation of Hwach'a?


Now, now...let's not get too ambitious. That would test the collective intelligence of us civers, don't you think?

On the other hand......hmmm. Watch this space!
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Hello? Someone must know where the word comes from; is it a normal English term for some type of ship?
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Just did a google search. As best as I can determine from that, the name derives from a relatively ancient or dark ages Irish sailing vessel. The name "curragh" is also the name of a specific place in Ireland, apparently.
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Actually it's a contraction of 'curiously', and 'bugger', as in "For seafaring people, curiously, the bugger never sinks, even in ocean or sea"

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a curragh is indeed irish,

its correct pronounciation is kurrah

it is an ancient form of a boat, not sure but i think it was cannoe like, made out of animal skins stretched arround a wooden frame. some saint supposedly sailed to america in one of these.

and yes it is also a place in ireland, actually only about 5 miles from me. this the horseracing home of ireland which also happens to contain the main barracks for the irish army,
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Kurrrrrragui

What can I do? That's my accent.

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so it rhymes with "hurrah"???
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quote:
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so it rhymes with "hurrah"???


As I pronounce it at least, yes.
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@Arnelos and Mr Justice: Thanks!
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I have always pronounced it cure-aw. Pretty close.

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I was never really sure (as is common in the English language...just think of tough, it's not pronounced tow or some some such, but tuff), so I just went with kur-ag. Now that I know the proper way, though, I will go with Kurr-ah.
Vince278 is offline Vince278
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Its good to see more options than what I started the poll with.

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Variant(s): or cur·rach /'k&-r&, -r&[k]/

The dictionary mentions this is closer to the Irish etymology.

It also mentions a curragh is a type of coracle, but omits any mention of culture flipping...

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Maybe they wanted to call it Coracle but didn't want to reward a naysayer by putting him in the game.

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quote:
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some saint supposedly sailed to america in one of these.


Saint Brendan the Navigator.
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My gut reaction would be to say Kur-agk. But I would be open to correction on that.
 
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