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What does "An tSlur" mean?

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  • 06-08-2008 9:37pm
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    Random
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    Thanks


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    Intothesea
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    Hello there. Would 'an tslua' (of the crowd/legion) make
    sense in the context? Is it an older orthography, giving
    'an tslus'? Dineen gives this as 'dissimulation'; slusadh,
    dissembling; slusaidhe, dissembler or wheedler; slusaim,
    I dissemble, counterfeit. Any good?


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    I was up North and it was on a sticker slapped onto a road sign. I guess "of the crowd/legion" could make sense ??


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    Múinteoir
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    random wrote: »
    What does "An tSlur" mean?


    Nothing, as far as I can see. Are you sure you read it right?


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    Pretty sure ... but if I'm being told it means nothing but people who know Irish (when I haven't a breeze tbh) I guess I may have seen it wrong ?? Pretty sure it was right though ..


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    Poll Dubh
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    page3_27_1.png
    The Irish name for Newry - an tIúr (the yew tree)
    There's no official recognition of indigenous placenames up North.


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    That might make more sense too!

    Thanks lads.


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    Múinteoir
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    Poll Dubh wrote: »
    page3_27_1.png
    The Irish name for Newry - an tIúr (the yew tree)

    Yeah, that would make sense alright. There is some sticker campaign going on I believe, where people are sticking the Irish versions onto signs themselves.


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