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  2. Ulster English - Wikipedia

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    "Look at thon blade" – "Look at that girl"; "Our blade" – "My sister/cousin" (Can also be used as a term of endearment in this form) boak, boke: to retch/vomit, vomit verb noun: From Scots bowk. [19] bog: wetland/toilet noun: From Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach meaning "wetland". boggin/bogging: disgusting, ugly or otherwise generally ...

  3. Kathleen Mavourneen - Wikipedia

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    "Mavourneen" is a term of endearment derived from the Irish Gaelic mo mhuirnín, meaning "my beloved". The Irish soprano Catherine Hayes (1818–1861)—the first Irish woman to sing at La Scala in Milan—learned "Kathleen Mavourneen" while training in Dublin.

  4. Term of endearment - Wikipedia

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    This article is about the phrase. For the film, see Terms of Endearment. For other uses, see Terms of Endearment (disambiguation). A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers ...

  5. Scottish Gaelic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Traditional grammars use the terms 'past', 'future tense', 'conditional', 'imperative' and 'subjunctive' in describing the five core Scottish Gaelic verb forms; however, modern scholarly linguistic texts reject such terms borrowed from traditional grammar descriptions based on the concepts of Latin grammar.

  6. Dictionary of the Scots Language - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) (Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots–English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language.

  7. List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin - Wikipedia

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    Cairn Capercaillie Claymore Trousers Bard [1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel".The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek (bardos) and ancient Latin (bardus) writings (e.g. used by the poet Lucan, 1st century AD), which in turn took the ...

  8. Irish kinship - Wikipedia

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    A majority of the terms used in the kinship system are similar to the English kinship system, but the terms for aunt, uncle, nephew, niece and cousin have a far vaguer and different use. These terms, however, vary in degree of use as this system is largely confined to the Gaeltacht regions, and hence not widely used among other members of Irish ...

  9. List of Irish words used in the English language - Wikipedia

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    Other, more informal terms include: banshee – bean sí. barmbrack – An Irish fruit loaf. From Irish ó bairín breac, speckled loaf. bodhrán – A winnowing drum used as a musical instrument. bog – (from bogach meaning "marsh/peatland") a wetland (according to OED). bonnaught – A type of billeting or a billeted soldier.