Local band Angus Mohr get a great writeup!

[Nighthawk]

Our local boys Angus Mohr, a Colorado based Celtic rock band, got a rather interesting write up in a music blog. Seems the blogger was really impressed! There are quite a few good pictures, too!

http://shullamuth.wordpress.com/2010...something-new/

Anyone who hasn't heard Angus Mohr should check them out! If you like good ol' classic rock and Celtic music, like Pink Floyd and Jimmy Hendrix, played on the pipes, then these guys are the band for you!!

http://www.angusmohr.com/

[Andrew Green]

Gotta sympathize based on name. Lol.

Good times!

[Nick the DSM]

Awesome!

[macshorty]

Cool. Wonder if they'll get around to doing an east coast tour?

[chrisupyonder]

Brill! must get their music. You may also like our Peatbog Faeries..
http://www.peatbogfaeries.com/music.html
And they wear kilts.
http://www.peatbogfaeries.com/Gallery/America
http://www.peatbogfaeries.com/Gallery/Australia

[OC Richard]

Our local boys Angus Mohr, a Colorado based Celtic rock band

The band might be great but it puts me off somewhat when people use Gaelic words but mispell them.

A local Firefighter Pipe Band had an incorrect Irish phrase on their logo (both in spelling and in choice of words) and explaining the situation to them didn't seem to have any impact.

I guess it's like the t-shirts I see Japanese tourists wearing which have misspelt nonsensical quasi-English phrases on them. When I was in Japan I looked and looked but all I could find were shirts with correct English on them!

[chrisupyonder]

The band might be great but it puts me off somewhat when people use Gaelic words but mispell them.
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It's not Gaelic, it's old French.

The word fairy derives from Middle English faierie (also fayerye, feirie, fairie), a direct borrowing from Old French faerie (Modern French féerie) meaning the land, realm, or characteristic activity (i.e. enchantment) of the legendary people of folklore and romance called (in Old French) faie or fee (Modern French fée). This derived ultimately from Late Latin fata (one of the personified Fates, hence a guardian or tutelary spirit, hence a spirit in general); cf. Italian fata, Spanish hada of the same origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy

In Gaelic...

Scottish: sìthiche, bean-shìth (female)
Irish: síog

[Morris at Heathfield]

It's not Gaelic, it's old French.

I believe OC Richard was referring to the German-looking "Mohr" in "Angus Mohr". Unless it's a pun, it would be a misspelling, although "Angus" is not really Gaelic either, but an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Aonghas. Fully Anglicized, however, you would expect the band's name to be written something like "Angus More".

"Aonghas Mòr has been called "the first MacDonald" by one historian,[1] namely because he was the first of the dynasty created by his father to rule Islay."

His father, of course, being Donald (Domhnall).

[Shullamuth]

Hello Everyone,

Wow . As mentioned above, I write a bit about the band Angus Mohr. So I guess I'm curious about the sources for correct and incorrect spelling, especially when it comes to Gaelic. I thought h was an aspiration and where you put it depends a lot on your accent.

As for the presumption that a band (or person for that matter-- I've seen my name spelled Shullamith, but I'm not inclined to change now) is spelling their name incorrectly, here is a link to a published text with the spelling "Angus Mohr."

http://books.google.com/books?id=NiY...istory&f=false

Angus Mohr is a brilliant band, and they put on an amazing show. So, yeah, I'm partisan, but I'm not trying to be obnoxious. I'm just honestly curious about the source information.

[Morris at Heathfield]

Hello Everyone,

Wow . As mentioned above, I write a bit about the band Angus Mohr. So I guess I'm curious about the sources for correct and incorrect spelling, especially when it comes to Gaelic. I thought h was an aspiration and where you put it depends a lot on your accent.

As for the presumption that a band (or person for that matter-- I've seen my name spelled Shullamith, but I'm not inclined to change now) is spelling their name incorrectly, here is a link to a published text with the spelling "Angus Mohr."

http://books.google.com/books?id=NiY...istory&f=false

Angus Mohr is a brilliant band, and they put on an amazing show. So, yeah, I'm partisan, but I'm not trying to be obnoxious. I'm just honestly curious about the source information.

Well, then, there's a historical precedent for the spelling. In the modern standard spelling of Scottish Gaelic, however, the spelling would be Aonghas Mór. I don't believe the mór should be aspirated, as Aonghas doesn't end in a vowel. If it were aspirated the Gaelic spelling would be Aonghas Mhór.

Oops! sorry. I did not read the post properly. Mohr is a german surname and I think has Celtic roots in one of the Celtic languages of which Gaelic is only one of several, which include Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Bretton, Manx and Cornish and have their source in central Europe. So it is not misspelled Gaelic. I cannot see any problem with the name and the band is Great, love their music.

In the context of the band's name, unless it has a double meaning, I believe "Mohr" is from the Scottish Gaelic mór, meaning "great", used as an appellation for a particular man named Angus (or Aonghas) who lived in the thirteenth century. I am not familiar with the use of "oh" to indicate the long o in Scottish Gaelic, but as Shullamuth has pointed me to one source from the 19th century, I'm open to the possibility that it was once a possible spelling, even if it is not considered standard now.

And I'm sure they're a great band. I'm not knocking their musical talent.