) Irish traditional costumes make you think of Irish folk dancing. Female dancers wear a long-sleeved dress, knee-high white socks and black shoes. The colourful patterns on the dresses are based on Celtic designs.​

а в чем суть вопроса-то?

1.  old english like modern german, french, russian and greek, had many inflections to show singular and plural, tense, person, didn't it? 2/  do verbs now have very few inflections?   3/  and adjectives do not change according to the noun, do they?   4/  why has  english become, over the past five centuries a very flexible language? 5/  without inflections, the same word can operate as many different parts of speech, can't it?   6/  can we  can talk about water to drink and to water the flowers; time to go and to time a race; a paper to read and to paper a bedroom?   7/  is a  sixty-year old man inearing retirement; we can talk about a round of golf, cards or drinks?   8/  what has  contributed some words to english at some time, and the process is now being reversed?   9/  is  english the most widespread language on the earth, second only to mandarin chinese in the number of people who speak it?   10/  is it the language of business, technology, aviation and sport?