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Example sentences for: gaelic

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Dwelly set out to compile the Gaelic from all earlier dictionaries and was very successful in an encyclopedic effort; but the work would have been more useful had it an English-to-Gaelic section and provided some etymological clues as to meaning.
At this time (1901) Ireland had 640,000 Gaelic speakers in a population of about 4 million, the same as Scotland.
The Caledonian Brewery holds regular evenings called ceilidhs — a Gaelic word for informal gatherings with music, dance, stories, and song (42 Slateford Road; Tel. 337 1286).
But the effect was the gradual displacement of Gaelic by the development of Scots English parallel with southern English (as the successors to the respective Anglian and Saxon mainstreams).
It was dropped at the court of Gaelic kings in favour of English about 900 years ago, perhaps to please an English queen or perhaps to ensure the retention of the English-speaking half of Northumbria ceded to Scotland.