https://armaghproject2013.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/emerging-from-the-mists-of-time/ ieiMedia Storytelling Project in Armagh, Northern Ireland Sat, 29 Jun 2013 23:39:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://armaghproject2013.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/emerging-from-the-mists-of-time/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 23:39:24 +0000 http://armaghproject2013.wordpress.com/?p=223#comment-18 My mouth is holding on to those sounds too. “Belonging” is something we naturally want to do perhaps. Maybe our words help us to do that beyond vocabulary. So does naming. Naming people, naming places, knowing nicknames – it is how we know where we are, who we are, and what our relationship is to the person next to us. My name is hard for Americans to pronounce, so my family taught me to say it in a way that makes sense where I live. But when I travel to Italy, I actually say my name incorretly and people are confused. Imagine if an entire contry pronounced your name differently than you were raised to say it. So the the word, the sounds, the names have layered meaning, they speak to where we belong.

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