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Replying To zinny:  "Its a bit like a lot of Irish names both mean the same thing but at the end of the day it should be what the person themselves use as their spelling.

Great achievement for him whichever way you spell it."
There's only one way to spell Tadhg, and the man himself spells it like that, as does everyone with the name.
Tadgh doesn't make any sense phonetically in Irish, so it doesn't mean the same thing.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2647 - 02/12/2025 09:53:15    2646737

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "There's only one way to spell Tadhg, and the man himself spells it like that, as does everyone with the name.
Tadgh doesn't make any sense phonetically in Irish, so it doesn't mean the same thing."
I'm probably as pedantic as they come with regard to things like spelling and punctuation, but in fairness, Tadhg is an easy one to get wrong. I sometimes have to stop and think myself when I come to write it. I think too much is being made of the other poster spelling it incorrectly.

* Now frantically checks this post for typos or similar before hitting 'Post Message', for fear of the pedantic one making a mistake himself at such a time! :D

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3273 - 02/12/2025 12:25:25    2646762

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "I'm trying not to be pedantic, but it's Tadhg, not Tadgh. In fairness, you're not the only one to spell it like that, I've seen it in newspapers and plenty other places."
Storm in a tea cup !.
There's no rights or wrongs in whatever spelling you use, it's all about preferences of the day.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3323 - 02/12/2025 13:56:16    2646774

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Replying To supersub15:  "Storm in a tea cup !.
There's no rights or wrongs in whatever spelling you use, it's all about preferences of the day."
It shows a lack of effort on your part. In fairness, the bar you set for yourself is fairly low.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1601 - 02/12/2025 14:23:17    2646778

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Replying To supersub15:  "Storm in a tea cup !.
There's no rights or wrongs in whatever spelling you use, it's all about preferences of the day."
No storm at all. Just pointing out that we see the incorrect spelling of the name a lot. I agree with the other posters that it's an easy one to get wrong, particularly for non-Gaeilge speakers.
If I was to keep referring to Paul O'Connell as Plau O'Connell, I'd definitely be spelling his name wrong. So there is a right way and a wrong way of spelling a name.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2647 - 02/12/2025 14:37:05    2646780

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Replying To supersub15:  "Storm in a tea cup !.
There's no rights or wrongs in whatever spelling you use, it's all about preferences of the day."
Ah hear. There are manee rites and rongs about everee speling u use. Just bekoz I sed it's easy to get speling of first part of Thadhg Biern's name rong doesn't meen that all speling is all about prefrenses of the day.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3273 - 03/12/2025 09:05:37    2646855

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Ah hear. There are manee rites and rongs about everee speling u use. Just bekoz I sed it's easy to get speling of first part of Thadhg Biern's name rong doesn't meen that all speling is all about prefrenses of the day."
Thanks for the post and the very welcome sense of humour.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3323 - 03/12/2025 10:47:13    2646865

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "No storm at all. Just pointing out that we see the incorrect spelling of the name a lot. I agree with the other posters that it's an easy one to get wrong, particularly for non-Gaeilge speakers.
If I was to keep referring to Paul O'Connell as Plau O'Connell, I'd definitely be spelling his name wrong. So there is a right way and a wrong way of spelling a name."
Your initial interest in my spelling / misspelling of Tadgh / Tadhg was to say the least interesting, what it really boiled down to was the reversal of the last two letters, hg simple as that, how they were arranged in the spelling meant a lot to you and I respect that.

I went out of my way to put my understanding and my view's on the spelling in my post.

However, yesterday I posted two replies making sure they were squeaky clean and within the house rules, unfortunately they didn't make the forum. I also posted a reply to a different poster, sadly that post didn't make the forum either, unless I'm mistaken it is the fourth time in a month, I simply don't understand how it works.

I was of the opinion it is a forum to share sporting information, not a popularity forum.

Happy Xmas, - - - - sorry I mean Christmas.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3323 - 03/12/2025 11:20:43    2646868

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