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This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
Accents and dialects vary widely across Great Britain, Ireland and nearby smaller islands. The UK has the most local accents of any English-speaking country [citation needed]. As such, a single "British accent" does not exist. Someone could be said to have an English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish accent, although these all have many different ...
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A fair number of Gaelic names were borrowed into English or Scots at different periods (e.g. Kenneth, Duncan, Donald, Malcolm, Calum, Lachlan, Alasdair, Iain, Eilidh), although it can sometimes be difficult to tell if the donor language was Irish or Scottish Gaelic (e.g. Deirdre, Rory, Kennedy, Bridget/Bride, Aiden).
Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar?' website; A national map of the regional dialects of American English; IDEA Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine – International Dialects of English Archive; English Dialects – English Dialects around the world
Jane Stuart-Smith defined two varieties for descriptive purposes in a chapter of the 1999 book Urban Voices entitled "Glasgow: accent and voice quality": . Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers
An example is the article Raghnall (given name), which is about the given name Raghnall. This category is not for adding names that are derived from Scottish Gaelic, only names that are Scottish Gaelic. For example, the given name Ranald is an Anglicised form of the already mentioned Raghnall. Ranald is not Scottish Gaelic, it is English.