Naming of the blog

A little lesson in Irish Gaelic:

Dia dhuit is the Irish Gaelic phrase for hello. Literally it means, "God to you" (Dia=God; dhuit=to you).
To respond, one would say,
"Dia's Muire dhuit", meaning literally "God and Mary to you".

The pronounciation of Gaelic is hard phonetically in my mind. "Dia" is prounounced as it it written, however "dhuit" is prounounced more like "goot" because "dh" is like "ch" but based on a "g" sound. Make sense? Possibly.

The Gaelic language refers to the the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, the ethno-linguistic group which is thought to have originated in Ireland and then spread to Scotland and the Isle of Man.

As a noun, it may refer to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the individual languages. The Gaelic languages include Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, or Manx. There is also the Canadian Irish dialect, who's routes are in Irish Gaelic, and the Canadian Gaelic dialect, stemming from the Scottish Gaelic. Though these languages sound similar, they are not the same thing. Interestingly, when speaking of Scottish Gaelic, the word Gaelic is pronounced differently than when referring to Irish or Manx Gaelic.