"Déanann sé staidéar ar leigheas éigeandála."
Translation:He studies emergency medicine.
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Pretty sure the S in leigheas should not be pronounced slender. http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/leigheas
I've been wondering about this in general... could it be because it's immediately followed by a slender vowel in a collocation? It definitely shouldn't be slender in isolation, but because (I imagine) leigheas éigeandála is a more-or-less fixed phrase, maybe it's common to carry over the agreement across word boundaries.
- 1780
The phrase bás a fháil as éadan a chéile (“to die one after another”) keeps a broad s in as, despite the following é in éadan.
The discussion above is referring to an old recording by the previous speaker, but in support of Pookagar's point, the Ulster equivalent of cad é does use a slender d, and is sometimes written goidé because of that.
But leigheas éigeandala is fairly modern phrase, and shouldn't really have devolved in the same way.
