@Olsen
I have always wondered, what exactly is the definition of "Faerghail"?
Is it bigger than a breadbox?
The "Faerghail" is part of the family of devices commonly used for hunting tigers in the Scottish highlands.
We needed a name for the game, and we really struggled to find one. From my experience, finding a name is best done at the outset of a project, and we had missed that magical date.
The name eventually came out of a book I had picked up in Bristol during my time as an exchange student. That book was "Irish: A complete introductory course", which is just about the weirdest thing to take home to Germany. My English was not good enough to even ponder the idea of learning Irish from a book written in English (let alone the question why a German would really want to learn Irish in the first place). I can't even remember why I picked up the book. Probably because "Urartian: A complete introductory course" was currently unavailable.
Anyway, the name "Faerghail" came from a list of common Irish surnames, which showed both the respective spelling and pronounciation (and if you ever read any Irish, you will know that the spelling and the pronounciation can have very little in common). "Faerghail" came from "Ó Fearghail", which is pronounced as "O'Farrell". We just switched the 'e' and 'a' so as not to have "fear" in the title, which might have given the wrong impression.
And that's the whole story
