Mistakes in the wild?

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Mistakes in the wild?

Unread post by ithinkitsnice »

I think I spotted a couple of 'mistakes' in the wild recently, or there's some use of the genitive I'm not familiar with.

"Am Beairt"
http://lanntair.com/events/event/am-bea ... sharmanka/

Can't see why that's using the genitive, wrong form of article too — should it not be "A' Bheart"?

And this one:
"Bùtha Scalpaigh"
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Again, can't see why that's genitive. "Bùth Scalpaigh" surely?

Or if either of those are actually correct, why is that?


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Mistakes in the wild?

Unread post by GunChleoc »

The i in beairt could just be a spelling mistake - no idea why it's masculine though.

Bùtha seems to be a dialectal variation.
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