Gaelic saying

[cmacsweet]

Your help is much appreciated!  Does anyone know the Gaelic translation for "God's Blessings".  My late grandmother used to say something like "Dia Duit", but I'm not sure that's it and please forgive my spelling. 

[ChocClare]

"Dia dhuit" means "good morning" - it actually means God to you (and the reply is, Dia's Muire dhuit - God and Mary to you).  "God bless you" - eg when someone sneezes - is Dia linn.  When people say goodbye, they sometimes say the equivalent of "Goodbye, god bless", which is Slan agus beannacht leat (literally, goodbye and blessings with you). "The blessing of God on you" is Bail o Dhia ort.  There is an acute accent on the o, but I don't know how to type that!  (There's also an acute accent on Slan).  Hope one of these rings a bell for you.

[SteveD]

Chocclare and cmacsweet, print this out:

http://www.kelseypub.com/irc/charmap2.html

 

To type the characters you want, hold down the Alt key and type the appropriate number.  Alt-0225 will give you � and Alt-0243 will give you �.

 

[bernardo]

I've tried doing that Alt-thing and it doesn't work.  I don't know of any way of writing accents on here apart from copy-and-pasting them from a Word document - which is obviously very fiddly.