The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107330   Message #2226735
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Jan-08 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gaelic word.
Subject: RE: BS: Gaelic word.
How do German dictionaries cope with that approach to word making? I mean with newly bolted together big words, do they just put in the bits, like fuhrer and bandwagen and leave it to the reader to make sense of the agglomeration?

As for Gaelic, it'd be a lot simpler if something more like the Manx Gaelic spelling conventions had been applied in the Irish and Scottish variants. Too late for that though.