Yaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!! I'm so glad you liked thiiiiiissssss!! I had a lot of fun (read: struggled to tears) with the worldbuilding so I'm super glad it's appreciated.
As for the pronunciation, it's how I hear it in a song off one of the albums I mentioned, Samhain, and I admit to not doing much research beyond that. This artist is American but has studied a lot of Celtic myth and history, I kinda just ran with it. If this is inaccurate and there's a better way to put it, then I am MORE than willing to change it and have egg on my face!!
Thanks for reading and commenting, you're a peach <3<3<3
Hey no theres no need to change it or anything like I said there’s like three different dialects in Gaelic and while most of the words are the same the pronunciations vary a lot so this was a lot less that look wrong and more oh cool this is one of those other pronunciations it’s probably the right pronunciation for one off those dialects and I was just curious as to which I’ll probably have to google it hahaah
I actually asked a friend of mine with a degree in Linguistics with a focus in Irish Gaelic who lived in Dublin for a year (which I probably should have done in the first place) and she said yeah, "sovven" probably wasn't quite right xD And considering how many people I have saying "thanks for correcting my pronunciation on Samhain!" I want to correct them correctly, you know?
That is true I blame canon for that one mispronounation spreadding it’s the one mistake season 4 really made hahaha like I said before I’ve always heard “sau-win” but I’m betting if your friend is in linguistics she might know the southern Irish pronunciation better
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