About Gaelic usages, yes there's "do you have a pen on you?" which is very Gaelic. In English you 'have' things while in Gaelic things are 'upon you' or 'at you'.
Another one just came up yesterday when my son said somebody was 'footing' (meaning 'walking') which is straight from the Gaelic.
Then there's putting 'a-' in front of verbs in my native Appalachia, like "there's somebody a-comin' up the holler" or "I'll be a-goin' now" etc. (Disputed whether this comes from the Gaelic, or earlier forms of English.)
Then there are words like 'smithereen' (smidirin) and 'shenanigan' (sionnachuighim).
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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