Connacht or Connaught?

Rebelheart · 12-10-2010 10:37PM #1

Which do you use?

I've noticed in the past few days that more than one person has used the spelling 'Connaught', a spelling which I've always associated with British people or undereducated Irish people.

Which one do you use?

ScumLord · 12-10-2010 10:38PM

Rebelheart wrote: »

Which do you use?

I've noticed in the past few days that more than one person has used the spelling 'Connaught', a spelling which I've always associated with British people or undereducated Irish people.

Which one do you use?

Pronounced properly there isn't enough letters in the alphabet to spell it.

Bonito · 12-10-2010 10:40PM

Rebelheart wrote: »

Which do you use?

I've noticed in the past few days that more than one person has used the spelling 'Connaught', a spelling which I've always associated with British people or undereducated Irish people.

Which one do you use?

What?

If you're that hung up about how people spell a word, you should leave the internet alone.

FWIW, I spell it one way one day and another way another day, depends on what mood I'm in.

FreudianSlippers · 12-10-2010 10:41PM

Connaught

Connacht or Connachta

Oranage2 · 12-10-2010 10:42PM

I've never had to use any of them ever in a sentence except when i'm telling spud farmers to go to Connacht or hell

Wibbs · 12-10-2010 10:44PM

Colour me a West Brit and uneducated then. Cue dlofnep hopping up and down going "I bloody told ya all!!" only in perfect Irish

TheBigLebowski · 12-10-2010 10:44PM

Connaught

Oranage2 wrote: »

I've never had to use any of them ever in a sentence except when i'm telling spud farmers to Connacht or hell

Until now...

cloonton · 12-10-2010 10:44PM

Well, the Presentation Sisters of CONNAUGHT could be relied upon in my day. I always took the annoying Connacht spelling as a sop to our rugby competitors over the water.

starbelgrade · 12-10-2010 10:44PM

The spelling Connaught reflects the former English practice — in Ireland, though not in Scotland — of representing the Gaelic voiceless velar fricative /x/ as gh (compare lough for loch), gh having been used in Middle English for the same sound.

Although this sound later disappeared from standard English, the spelling of words like "thought" and "caught" remained unaltered -- and in a further anglicisation the "new" English pronunciation of -aught was even applied in Britain to titles like that of the Duke of Connaught.

In Ireland the original pronunciation remained intact, the Gaelic-style spelling Connacht now used more often in English. It may have gained currency by mistranslation of the Irish name into English: in Irish, the form Cúige Chonnacht 'province of Connacht' is almost always used, and this may have led to people misunderstanding genitive case Connacht as the Gaelic version instead of nominative case Connachta.

I nicked that from wiki to make me sound like a). I know what I'm talking about & b). I give a fuck. Neither could be further from the truth.

alwaysadub · 12-10-2010 10:44PM

I used to spell it Connacht, but lately i've noticed it spelled Connaught, for example there's a website for jobs and it's spelt Connaught on it. I can't say i've had to write or spell out the word since i was in school, so i don't lose any sleep over it tbh.

FreudianSlippers · 12-10-2010 10:45PM

Connaught

cloonton wrote: »

Well, the Presentation Sisters of CONNAUGHT could be relied upon in my day. I always took the annoying Connacht spelling as a sop to our rugby competitors over the water.

What?

Bonito · 12-10-2010 10:46PM

OisinT wrote: »

What?

Your sig. It speaks truth.

cloonton · 12-10-2010 10:46PM

OisinT wrote: »

What?

check it out: http://www.connachtrugby.ie/index.php

Herb Powell · 12-10-2010 10:47PM

WTF?
I've never seen it spelled "Connacht"

starbelgrade · 12-10-2010 10:48PM

Herb Powell wrote: »

WTF?
I've never seen it spelled "Connacht"

You've never been to Connacht then.

Dudess · 12-10-2010 10:48PM

Connaught

Wow... associating the spelling of one measly word with under-educated Irish people? How arrogant can you get...

I spell it "Connacht" because it's faster, but I would have assumed either is correct.

FreudianSlippers · 12-10-2010 10:49PM

Connaught

cloonton wrote: »

check it out: http://www.connachtrugby.ie/index.php

But they spell it Connacht

How is that a "sop" to anyone?

google faps · 12-10-2010 10:49PM

Connaught

Connacht if you're Irish.

ScumLord · 12-10-2010 10:50PM

alwaysadub wrote: »

I used to spell it Connacht, but lately i've noticed it spelled Connaught, for example there's a website for jobs and it's spelt Connaught on it.

You should have complained, if they changed it you should have sent them another email calling them spineless.

cloonton · 12-10-2010 10:51PM

OisinT wrote: »

But they spell it Connacht How is that a "sop" to anyone?

well, at first glance you have to admit it's not as unpronounceable as the alternative

Bonito · 12-10-2010 10:52PM

Are you talking about the province or the butter?

orourkeda · 12-10-2010 10:52PM

The wesht

Rebelheart · 12-10-2010 10:54PM

Connaught

Dudess wrote: »

Wow... associating the spelling of one measly word with under-educated Irish people?

Ah Dudess, me auld flower ... speaking of undereducated Irish people....

Killer Pigeon · 12-10-2010 10:54PM

Connaught

Smelly cows or smelly cattle?

Bonito · 12-10-2010 10:54PM

google faps wrote: »

Connacht if you're Irish.

**** it lads, I'm not Irish after all.

I tuk yer jerbs!!!!!!!!!

Warper · 12-10-2010 10:55PM

Well GAA.ie spells it Connacht so lets go with this

Bonito · 12-10-2010 10:57PM

Rebelheart wrote: »

Ah Dudess, me auld flower ... speaking of undereducated Irish people....

23 posts in and we have the 1st sly dig.

FreudianSlippers · 12-10-2010 10:58PM

Connaught

Bonito wrote: »

23 posts in and we have the 1st sly dig.

I'd hardly call it sly

starbelgrade · 12-10-2010 10:59PM

Bonito wrote: »

23 posts in and we have the 1st sly dig.

The first sly dig was actually in the first post.

alwaysadub · 12-10-2010 11:00PM

ScumLord wrote: »

You should have complained, if they changed it you should have sent them another email calling them spineless.

Yeah,but that'd actually involve a bit of effort on my part..

P_1 · 12-10-2010 11:00PM

Connaught

Connacht is an Irish province containing Counties Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim.

Connaught is a hotel in London.

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