Re: Celtica (was: Maggel)
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 14, 2004, 13:30 |
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In a message dated 6/14/2004 8:48:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
barbarabarrett@ORCHIDSERVE.COM writes:
>What baffles me is how come when one uses the word "Gaelic" ouside of
>Ireland folk assume you mean the Scots dialect rather than the parent
>language, even if you use the Irish rather than the Scots pronounciation of
>"Gaelic"? It seems that in English; Irish=Gaelic but Gaelic=Scots Gaelic:
>Wierd.
Usage seems to be different in (my part of) the USA. I think "Gaelic" is
likely to be taken to mean "Irish Gaelic." If you say "Irish" with reference to
the language, people may respond "You mean 'Gaelic'?"
Doug
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