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When English and Old Irish Collide: Slew and Slogan

There aren’t a lot of Irish words in English, but there are some. See for instance, slew and slogan.

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This entry was posted by Lisa L. Spangenberg on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 2:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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One Response to “When English and Old Irish Collide: Slew and Slogan”

Emily Cross says:

October 29, 2009 at 5:29 am

Boycott is another irish word which has entered the english vocabulary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

Excellent blog btw. very interesting posts

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