On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:38:52 GMT, sf > wrote:
>On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:55:23 GMT,
>(Curly Sue) wrote:
>
>> I don't know about Siobhan, but the singer Eithne says that *th* is
>> silent even in Irish; that's why "Enya" is the phonetic spelling of
>> her name.
>
>What happened to the "i"? I'm not familiar with that
>singer's name, so when I see Enya, I pronounce it with a
>short vowel e... like "enter".
That's how I've heard it. Maybe it should be pronounced "eye-nya."
If so, she should have left the "i" in.
You've probably heard her song "Only Time." It was all over the place
a few years ago. New-agey, melancholy. We took a helicopter ride in
Alaska and that song was playing at the time, so my mother calls it
the "Helicopter Song." She also calls "Time to Say Goodbye" the
"Water Fountain Song" because they used it to accompany the water show
at the Bellagio in Las Vegas when we were there. </rambling>
Oh darn- the heaven's just opened up, it poured for about 15 min, now
the sun is out. Just what we need, more humidity.
Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!