Talk:Gool (game)

I played tag while growing up in Chicago, Illinois in the 1970s and in the adjoining suburb of Oak Park in the 1980s. The word "gool" was a natural part of our vocabulary. There is a word in Irish (Gaelic) that means back, "cúl". This word is pronounced as the English "cool". To go "ar gcúl" means to go back, to decline, or to recede. Through the grammatical change that takes place to the initial consonant in the word "cúl" in this usage the word is pronounced as "gool". A literal translation would be "on back". This is the same as the English "on gool". Is there is a connection between the word "gool" and the immigrant Irish population in Chicago in the 19th century? 68.188.220.157 (talk) 01:59, 17 October 2009 (UTC)