Fòram na Gàidhlig

but for now, everyone writes it as "ag ràdh". No. There is ag ràdh and a' gràdh(a) (plus a lot of other variantions) i.e. in some areas, the g has fused fully onto the verbal noun. You can tell it has fused because in those dialects, the lenited verbal noun ends up being ghràdh(a) , for e...

I don't think 'S e hamstair a tha 'nad mhàthair agus tha fàileadh nan caoran-dromain far d' athar would make it, it fails to illustrate any specific usages, grammar or idiom, that would require an entry

Àlainn trumps brèagha, snog is short by the way.

<Nursing ragingly bad hangover> "Did you have enough to drink at the wedding?" "Bha! Ceart gu leòr" (perhaps?) Ceart gu leòr wouldn't fit into this scenario, there's nothing really to which ceart would be an answer but just bha gu lèor or bha gu leòr mhòr even. But yes, overall,...

I think in the right context, gu leòr can mean an abundance, say in bha sinn aig banais Chaluim an-dè agus dh'òl mi gu leòr dhen Each Bhàn ann.

But I should perhaps offset it in the dictionary.

Interesting, I'd never considered the impact of galore on learner usage of gu leòr.

On a 10 point scale (10 being bliss), I'd put gu dòigheil at the 7+ end, cgl I'd rate maybe a 4. Bearing in mind context, intonation and all that, plus addressee, I wouldn't use cgl with someone I didn't know that well. I think the "worst" I'd use with someone I didn't know that well would...

I do know a' falbh should be with the appostrophe (honest) but I keep writing it with a hypen because of the likes of a-steach, a-staigh, a-muigh and a-mach and because of the (mostly American) idion of putting a- in front of the infinitive as in "she came a-running down the road while he was ...

'S e do bheatha

Mar sin leat agus taing airson nam èisg uileag

Chanainn mar sin leibh agus taing airson an t-iasg/an èisg air fad.

Eadar dà sgeul, tha iomadh ball-eisimpleir "èibhinn" san Fhaclair Bheag - tha caraid agam fiù 'gan cruinneachadh!

PS mòran is mòr + an, literally a "bigness". So it has ò. Just in case that helps!

a-falbh » a' falbh
by the way

It's because I needed a phrase in the Faclair Beag (from whence this data came) to illustrate the use of "thank you for X" and there's nothing that says dictionaries have to be boring. Sure, I could have used sgadan but one gets a little tired editing a Gaelic dictionary of always talking ...

Well there are some folk who use it privately (I do, and Michael Newton used to as far as I know) or for decorative purposes. So there's no harm in using it but be aware it's not a very common thing. A similar fate to Gothic script or Sütterlin in English in German I suppose.