dictionary of hiberno-english (t.p. dolan)

sionnach commented on the word dictionary of hiberno-english (t.p. dolan)

Two stars. A disappointing hodge-podge. My main criticism is that the criteria for inclusion of a word seem ill-defined to non-existent. At a guess, fully 30% of the entries are actually Gaelic words. This suggests that the entire Irish population speaks some kind of mixture of English and Gaelic, in which every sentence is spattered with Gaelic words. Which is just not the case.

January 20, 2008