Quote Originally Posted by Jack Daw View Post
As far as I'm concerned, this is the way to go. Now, my gaelic is a bit rusty; so, the two-handed sword would be pronounced roughly as, 'clay de lay'?
By my reckoning, the "da" (meaning two) should really have an accent and be pronounced as "daw" with the d sound made with the tongue at the back of your teeth (a kind of softer d, halfway to a "th"). At least that is how it is done in Irish, although we would pronounce it "Clive daw law-v", our "mh" almost always being sounded as a v......