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Irish (Gaelic)Cá bhfuil an leithreas? ItalianDov'è la toilette? Dov'è il bagno? Italian (Roman dialect)'Ndo sta er cacatóre? JamaicanWeh ah de bawtroom? Japanese便所はどこですか(benjo wa doko desu ka?) トイレはどこですか(toire wa doko desu ka?) ...
Yet Engish is everywhere in everyday use and understood by all or virtually all, constituting such a threat to the three remaining Celtic languages ,Irish,Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh ...that their long-term 有这些海岛的寂静的部分,规模可观的社区口语那里在Engish之前。 Engish到处在日常使用并且由...
awhere I studied Irish at a summer college for three weeks at a time. Last year I achieved "Gold Fainne" status in the spoken language. I have also met people from all around the country with whom I still keep in contact. I hope to return next year to supervise a course of younger...
The origins of the ‘skink’ part of its name are a little unclear. Some say it comes from a Gaelic word for ‘essence’ and others say that the word refers to the scraps of beef that were originally used to make soup. Where to try it:Cullen Skink is warm, hearty and the perfect ...
't from Scottish Gaelic. It is from Scots, an entirely different language of Germanic origin that is descended from Northumbrian English. Scots was by James VI's time the more common language in the Lowlands and in eastern Scotland, while Highland Gaelic was frequently referred to as "Irish"...
Wolof word dega, meaning either "look here" or to "understand," often used to mark the beginning of a sentence. In the English spoken by African Americans in the 1960s, "dig" means " to understand something." An example in Wolof is dega nga olof, "Do you understand Wolof?"...
Nevertheless, this aspect of the Irish experience abroad is often neglected in academic studies of the Irish diaspora. This study examines the role that the GAA and Gaelic games play in facilitating the construction of Irishness in London. The London Irish community is a multi-generational ...
However, it also marks a departure from any of the published work to date because for the first time it addresses the place of Gaelic games in the lives of the Irish émigré in the San Francisco Bay...doi:10.1080/09670882.2017.1408180Frances Harkin...