Potatoes In The Morning

Here's an old Irish saying about potatoes ....

"Prátaí ar maidin,

Prátaí ar nóin,

Is dá néireoinn san oíche

Prátaí a gheobhainn." 

You can listen to the pronunciation on this sound file .....

Here's the translation into English ...

Potatoes in the morning,

Potatoes at noon,

And if I rise during the night,

Potatoes is what I would get.

If you like phonetic spelling to help with pronunciation here you go ...

"Prátaí ar maidin,

(Praw-thee ehr mah-gin)

Prátaí ar nóin,

(Praw-thee ehr noh-in)

Is dá néireoinn san oíche

(Iss dhaw nigh-row-ing san eeh-hah)

Prátaí a gheobhainn." 

(Praw-thee ah yoh-wing)

I hope this helps if you are learning to speak Irish. This version is in a Munster Irish dialect.

For more potato sayings check out my blog post here.

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