XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english, soc.culture.irish   
   From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Fri, 24 May 2024 10:21:57 +1000: Peter Moylan   
    scribeva:   
      
   >On 24/05/24 05:15, Ruud Harmsen wrote:   
   >   
   >> See Google Translate:   
   >> Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Ross Clark.   
   >> On the twenty -third day of May, Ross Clark wrote.   
   >>   
   >> Word for word:   
   >>   
   >> On   
   >> The   
   >> Third   
   >> day   
   >> is   
   >> twenty   
   >> of   
   >> Month   
   >> May,   
   >> Ross Clark wrote   
   >   
   >It's true that the most common use of Irish "is" is as a copula, just as   
   >in English. However, there is a second meaning of "is": it can mean "and".   
   >   
   >I have no idea why three-and-twenty is expressed with "is" rather than   
   >"agus". I would be interested to hear from anyone who knows.   
      
   It's a reduced form of agus, in that sense, says Wiktionary:   
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Irish   
      
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