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Conlangery #124: Old Irish (natlang)

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The Orthography Is Less Helpful Than You Might Think.

H is used. That's the truth for Irish. The orthography is less helpful than you might think. And so it looks like you're, you're sticking an H on front of the next word, but why you're actually doing that H reflects the S that used to be there. So we are talking here about old Irish, which presents an array of spelling nightmares. It should never have been spelled with the Latin alphabet.

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