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Here we present 15 words that passed through Gaelic on their way to English. Some are stereotypically Gaelic, like bog and clan, but others, like loop and curmudgeon, may surprise you. You can read more about words from the Emerald Isle in Beyond Shamrocks and Leprechauns.

Words from Round 2 of the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Here is a poetic list of what George Ella Lyon would say when someone asks her, "Where are you from?" Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory