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A large collection of historical proverbs and aphorisms in Scottish Gaelic with translations into English, arranged alphabetically (by Gaelic), though the text has been OCRed, so can be keyword searched for English or Gaelic keywords.This is a substantial revision of material collected by Donald Macintosh (or Mackintosh) in A Collection of Gaelic Proverbs and Familiar Phrases Accompanied with an English Translation (1785), with many additions collected by Alexander Nicholson, and corrections to Macintosh's versions. Nicholson also mostly updated the spelling to what was then current, except where this would affect metre, rhyme, etc., and his introduction explains the orthography he used (that may be helpful since even his update now pre-dates the 20th-century Gaelic spelling reforms, and is thus markedly old-fashioned and liable to be confusing in parts for those are not perfectly fluent and experienced in multiple dialects).Includes a supplement of late-arriving material added after the bulk of the alphabetically arranged book was complete; a short biography of Donald Mac[k]intosh; material from John Gillies's "Collection of Gaelic Poetry" (1786); Duncan Lothian's "Proverbs in Ver

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Author

Alexander Nicholson; Donald Macintosh

Publisher

Maclachlan & Stewart / Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.

Published

1882

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language