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Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte

Health is better than wealth.

For a get-well card, a retirement, or anyone choosing health over overtime.

Surname or "The ___ family"Seán deserves his fadaEstablished (year)

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Framed 28 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in), print area 20 × 28 cm. Natural oak-finish frame, snow-white mount, enhanced matte art paper 200 gsm, Perspex glaze, ready to hang. Made to order, wording quoted exactly from the cited source, every fada correct.

Ships with its story card: meaning, pronunciation and provenance on an A6 card in the parcel.

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About this saying

The herds in this proverb are not decoration: pre-modern Ireland counted wealth in cattle, so ranking health above the herds was ranking it above money itself. The sentence also happens to hold a perfect demonstration of what the síneadh fada does. It contains both ná (than) and na (the), two little words distinguished only by the mark, doing different grammatical jobs three syllables apart. Strip the fadas and the proverb’s own grammar collapses.

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