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[Facts] Gaelic - is it Galic or Gaylic please help
I have meant loads of English & Scots and still I get the two versions of pronunciation. Would like to know what the most of you out there think.
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Many thanks for your input.
I never realized it could be the difference between Irish & Scottish
speakers.
Very interesting. Much appreciated.
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There is a prn difference between Scottish and Irish Gaelic. AFAIK it's Scots Gal-ick, at least that's how it was prn in my (Irish)college. Admittedly, the only speakers of Scots Gaelic I know are Irish who studied it at university level but they spent time in Scotland.It is Irish Gay-lic but Irish people rarely(more or less never) say Gaelic for our language - we say Gaeilge(Gayl-ga) - which is simply the Irish for Irish - or more commonly we just say Irish. So - Scots Gall-ick and Irish Gay-lick.
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AgreedI agree with Speranza, Scottish - GAL-ic, and Irish - GAY-lic.I am originally from the north of Scotland and my grandfather (from the Western Isles) was a Gaelic speaker. My family, and most of the people we know say GAL-ic. Now I live further south, I have come across a lot more people who pronounce it GAY-lic.
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That is interesting. I suppose the Southerners are influenced by Sassenach prn.? What is the Scots Gaelic for Gaelic?
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That is possible. Gàidhlig is the Scots Gaelic for Gaelic, and from the link belowhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_languageGàidhlig is pronounced GAL-ic
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I say Gaelic as "gay-lic." If I heard "gal-ic," I would assume that person was saying Gallic, which means French.
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