Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands by Newton, Michael Steven
Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands by Newton, Michael Steven

Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands

An introduction to the history of Scottish Gaelic and its relationship with English followed by forty eight...
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Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands by Newton, Michael Steven

Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands

$42.93
Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands by Newton, Michael Steven

Gaelic In Your Gob: Four Dozen English Words That Came from the Scottish Highlands

$42.93
Author: Michael Steven Newton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

An introduction to the history of Scottish Gaelic and its relationship with English followed by forty eight absorbing essays that trace common words in modern English to the Scottish Highlands. These terms have left trails that lead us through space and time and allow us to piece together the histories of people, culture, and language - with some laughs along the way.

213 pages with 30 illustrations by Natalia Lopes, a map and diagrams.



Author: Michael Steven Newton
Publisher: Michael Newton
Published: 02/15/2021
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780971385849

About the Author
Newton, Michael Steven: - Dr Michael Newton earned a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 and was an Assistant Professor in the Celtic Studies department of St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia 2008-2013. He has written a multitude of books and articles about Gaelic culture and history and is a leading authority on Scottish Gaelic heritage in North America. He was the editor of Dùthchas nan Gaidheal: Selected Essays of John MacInnes, which won the Saltire Society's Research Book award of 2006, and the author of Warriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders, which was nominated for the 2009 Katharine Briggs Award for folklore research. In 2014 he was given the inaugural Saltire Award by the St. Andrews University Scottish Heritage Center (of Laurinburg, North Carolina) for his outstanding contributions to the preservation and interpretation of Scottish history and culture. His 2015 publication Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory-Keeper of the Forest: Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Literature of Canada, the first anthology of Gaelic-Canadian literature and analysis of it, was nominated for the Scholarly Writing category of the Atlantic Book Prize. In 2018 he was recognized with the International award at the annual Scottish Gaelic awards in Glasgow, Scotland. The book that he co-edited with Wilson McLeod, An Ubhal as Àirde / The Highest Apple: An Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Literature, was awarded with the Best Gaelic Non-Fiction Book of 2020 by the Gaelic Books Council of Scotland.

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