These are words that resemble English words but have a very different meaning. The Irish alphabet only has 18 letters, as compared to the 26 in English. Unlike English nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and articles, the Irish counterparts have a gender assigned to them. To complicate matters, the gender of nouns in Irish does not always seem logical. Irish pronunciation can be tricky to learn because the words are not pronounced phonetically.
Some words are particularly baffling.
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