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In article <1992Aug7.205306.25359@math.ucla.edu> alex@lindbrook.math.ucla.edu (Alex Langley) writes:
>In article <1992Aug7.154932.6423@texhrc.uucp> jpk@texhrc.uucp (Patrick Karl) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug7.103238.19228@news.cs.brandeis.edu> rath@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>>--other
>>>Scots-Irish-isms which get attributed to the Amish include
>>>"red up (clean) the room."  "outen (turn off) the lights."
>>>Best, 
>>>Rich Rath
>>
>>That should be "redd", not "red".  
>>
>Tabhair duinn sampla as Gaeilge na hEireann no/ i nGa\idhlig na 
>hAlban le do thoil.
>
>Please give an example in Irish or Scots Gaelic (by email personally if
>you wish).
>
>Particularly the "need + past. p." with the "to be".

The 'need washed' constructions are lowland Scots English forms, not
Gaelic forms as far as I know, so there may not be any Gaelic
equivalent.

I got mine from my parents who are from Glasgow.  What's interesting
to me (apart from the correct syntactic analysis of it) is that I got
by saying it in Toronto (where people don't) for most of my childhood.
It didn't succumb to peer pressure, but I have no clue why.  Maybe I
was just very adept at recognising when I could and couldn't use it.

Alan
<amunn@umd5.umd.edu>


>Go raibh maith agaibh!
>Thanks!
>
>Alex Langley
>alex@math.ucla.edu
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