The Essential English-Gaelic Dictionary: A Dictionary for Students and Learners of Scottish Gaelic [Hardcover]

Angus Watson (Compiler)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 2005

This new dictionary is intended for learners of Gaelic, from beginners to university and college students. It gives generous coverage of the core of the language, but the inclusion of vocabulary from fields such as business and IT means that it will also be a valuable tool for all those who require an up-to-date reference work. This dictionary has been fully read and checked with the support of the Gaelic Books Council.

Editorial Reviews

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'One of the most useful new tools for learners, readers and writers of Gaelic.... Recommended with enthusiasm' --Wilson McLeod, Am Braighe

About the Author

Angus Watson graduated in Gaelic from Aberdeen University and is a published writer of Gaelic short stories. He has recently completed a PhD at St Andrews University and currently lives in France. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 422 pages
• Publisher: Birlinn Ltd; 1st edition (November 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841581062
• ISBN-13: 978-1841581064
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,664,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This should be your first hardback Gaelic dictionary., September 23, 2003

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John D. Gressett "daibhidh_ruadh" (Denton, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary (Hardcover)

This is an excellent dictionary. It has modern technical vocabulary not found in older dictionaries (You can indeed say "internet" in Gaelic) and is very easy to use. It has almost all of the vocabulary that you will need when doing an introductory course in Gaelic. It is small enough to be easy to search and large enough to have a great deal more detail and examples of usage than can be found in the pocket dictionaries. Its only real competition is the much larger dictionary produced by Colin Mark. Mark's dictionary has a much larger vocabulary coverage and many more examples of usage, but it is so large that it is difficult to find words and phrases in it. Watson's dictionary should be the front-line dictionary, with Mark's immense volume being used as heavy artillery to back up the front line.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars English-Gaelic only..., March 30, 2007

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Warfrat73 (Milwaukee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary (Hardcover)

I guess I assumed that this was a conventional bilingual dictionary (i.e. provides translations for both English and Gaelic words). It is, as a more careful shopper than myself might notice, called an English-Gaelic dictionary, and it is that only. Mia Culpa, but I bought it to help with translations from Gaelic into English for research purposes. It is, though, quite up to date, perhaps much more up to date than most readers of Gaelic so that you can send them running to a dictionary to figure out what you're talking about... though they'd have trouble figuring it out with this text.

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, March 30, 2007

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Jan Morgan (Albertville, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary (Hardcover)

This dictionary is relatively hard to follow. The words are listed by Gaelic terms which makes you have to almost go page by page to find the American word. If it was listed the other way around it would make it a lot more useful.