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Thread #132279   Message #3006148
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
13-Oct-10 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: Féile Amhráníochta an Chlair
Subject: RE: Féile Amhráníochta an Chlair
Er, have you told Stephen Hawking about "West Clare Time"?

My father used to tell the story of how the Professor of Irish at Trinity was asked if the Irish language had an equivalent for the Spanish concept of mañana; the professor considered this for a while and then replied "Well, yes; but the expression isn't quite so...urgent."

Matthew