Example sentences for: gaelic

How can you use “gaelic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gaelic was the mother tongue in Wigtownshire for twelve centuries, but little trace of it remains in the spoken language today.

  • Whether he is relating one in his native Gaelic or in the lilting English that he learned at school, you can almost hear the sough of the sea on far-off, never-to-be-seen-again Hebridean machairs as he speaks.

  • Sometimes these are given by the dictionary; sometimes it is the best guess I can come up with in spite of the inconsistencies, the regionalisms, and the often considerable changes in the inflected word stems of Gaelic which create huge pitfalls for the novice translator.

  • Pidgin loses much of its character when written, and it is a sad fact that both the writing and the speaking of it is discouraged today in many of West Africa's more modern schools for much the same reason, I suppose, that I remember many years ago being made to feel an outcast for having Gaelic as my mother tongue in an English-speaking school in my native Scotland.

  • Alison , the Gaelic form of Alice , actually means son of Alice.


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