{"id":32063,"date":"2025-10-04T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32063"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:34:16","slug":"ceilidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32063","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e8ilidh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-1v5ewjqq-vm\" style=\"max-width:840px;\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:840\/473\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.309524%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-1v5ewjqq-vm\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1V5ewJQQ-vM?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"473\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1V5ewJQQ-vM?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"840\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/?p=32063#arve-youtube-1v5ewjqq-vm\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/1V5ewJQQ-vM?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to know how to pronounce <em>c\u00e8ilidh<\/em>, you&#8217;ll probably need to ask someone in Scotland. It&#8217;s KAY-lee. But I suspect that anglophone pronunciation is approximate, because most of us don&#8217;t know how to make the sounds of Scottish Gaelic.<\/p>\n<p>I was ever so happy to be able to go to a c\u00e8ilidh while I was in Scotland. It was at the West Barns Village Hall in East Lothian. The jig in the video is &#8220;The Flying Scotsman.&#8221; I believe that&#8217;s a 19th Century jig, meant to evoke the movements of the famous train with that name.<\/p>\n<p>The dancing isn&#8217;t exactly perfect. But this is how children learn these things. As for men, I imagine more men would participate if their prospects in courtship still depended upon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know how to pronounce c\u00e8ilidh, you&#8217;ll probably need to ask someone in Scotland. It&#8217;s KAY-lee. But I suspect that anglophone pronunciation is approximate, because most of us don&#8217;t know how to make the sounds of Scottish Gaelic. I was ever so happy to be able to go to a c\u00e8ilidh while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;C\u00e8ilidh!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32063"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32071,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063\/revisions\/32071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}