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Example sentences for: gaelic
How can you use “gaelic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(The Celtic languages are an especially relevant case--not only is there renewed interest in Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, but there are revival movements for the extinct Manx and Cornish.
Unlike the Roman, the Celt left his mark in the many place names of Gaelic origin scattered around southern Scotland to this day.
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.
I found suggestions that it is a “metonymic occupational name,” an English nickname or an anglicized form of a Gaelic personal name meaning `life.
If this has whetted your taste for things Scottish, end your tour at the southern tip of St. Ann’s Bay, where Gaelic College gives summer courses in bagpipe-playing, dancing, and tartan-weaving.
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