Word: gaelicism
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Auspitz: Ah. After all those dreary British comedies and Hollywood laff riots, the real thing is here at last: Gaelic Wit. Ho. ho: Victor fell out of bed again...
...native of Cork, O'Criadain has edited Botteghe Oscure, an Italian Literary Review published in Rome and has translated T. S. Eliot "The Wasteland" into Gaelic...
...Goethe & Gaelic. The tension between these two strains adds a dimension of art to the superficially farcical misadventures of Michael O'Donovan. The naive hero is no new thing to fiction, but seldom has the type been told from within, nor has his intrinsic comedy been so unforced. Michael had-secretly accumulated a weird library from bookstore trash boxes, and its contents filled his mind, but nothing fitted anything he had to do in the world. Thus, when fired from his first good job as the world's worst railway freight clerk, he spoke that night...
What most infuriates Scotsmen is the notion that they are just backwoods Englishmen. Nearly 95,000 Scots still speak Gaelic and 2,000 speak no English. Scots cherish their own, dour Calvinistic church and their distinctive, Roman-influenced legal system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions...
...English rendering of the Gaelic: 100,000 welcomes...