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Old 11-20-2006, 11:50 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by #Ian#
I'd imagine you misheard her say "Meath".
Considering her poor diction and that she was surely stoned (again) Meath could easily sound like Reade.

Yeah, joking.

A lot of Irish people say "th"s that are in the middle or at the end of words as if they were "d"s.

So Meath would sound like Mead.

Thank God she didn't say "Dunshaughlin"!
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