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We weren’t forced to give up our language. We decided to do it.

Correct spelling is a basic courtesy, like legible handwriting.  It’s not optional.
Here’s a website I came across today: Online Marketing Ireland.  I know nothing about these people, and for all I know they might be very expert at what they do.  But if I were a potential customer of a company that describes itself as [...]

I’m one of those old fashioned people who think that language matters.
I care.
It annoys me when people blur the meaning of well-established words, and it annoys me even more when they assign new meanings without  thinking about the consequences.
Why?
Simple.  We have many useful words out there doing a useful job, and when we change their [...]

It’s claimed that Ulster Scots is a language in the same way as Irish or English, or Serbo-Croat. Well, here’s the introduction to the web site of the Ulster Scots Agency. I’ll give it to you without comment, and then we can talk about it a little bit, maybe. I made up [...]

A great old Irish word has survived intact within the Limerick dialect, as a term of abuse. Naturally, this being Limerick, they couldn’t have held on to a term of endearment.
The word is gabhal, pronounced gowl, to rhyme with owl. Contrary to what many people think, it isn’t a corruption of ghoul. [...]