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Old Posted Oct 21, 2014, 3:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Drybrain View Post
I'm not sure why, but it's true: I have several Irish friends and all refer to the language as Irish. Perhaps it's simply to distinguish it from other forms of Gaelic (Scots Gaelic, for example).
Wouldn't Gaelic be like a language group? So saying someone speaks Gaelic would be like saying someone speaks Germanic instead of saying German or Dutch, or Romance instead of French or Italian.
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