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Goidelic languages
Goidelic (Gaelic) languages: Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), and Manx (Gaelg), the Q-Celtic branch of Insular Celtic, historically forming a dialect continuum from Ireland through the Isle of Man to Scotland.
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato is Tim O'Brien's 1978 second novel, winner of the 1979 National Book Award for Fiction. In it, draftee Paul Berlin, on night watch in Quang Ngai, imagines his squad chasing the deserter Cacciato from Vietnam to Paris.
Going Clear (film)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Alex Gibney's 2015 HBO documentary based on Lawrence Wright's book, profiles eight former Scientologists including Paul Haggis, won three Emmys and a Peabody, and examines the church's 1993 IRS tax exemption.
Going concern
Going concern, or the going concern principle, is the accounting presumption that an entity will continue operating, with auditors required to disclose substantial doubt when it may not.
Going concern opinion
A going concern opinion is an auditor's report statement flagging substantial doubt about a company's ability to continue operating; it warns of risk but does not predict failure.
Going Dutch
Going Dutch, or to go Dutch, is an idiom for each person paying their own share of a meal or outing; from the 19th-century Americanism Dutch treat, likely via the Pennsylvania Dutch, not a Dutch custom.
Going Dutch (TV series)
Going Dutch is a Fox single-camera military sitcom (2025–2026) created by Joel Church-Cooper, starring Denis Leary as Colonel Patrick Quinn, punished with command of the least strategic US Army base, in the Netherlands, alongside estranged daughter Captain Maggie Quinn (Taylor Misiak); canceled after two seasons.
Going for the One
Going for the One, Yes's eighth studio album (July 1977, Atlantic), marked Rick Wakeman's return and a shift to shorter songs; it topped the UK chart, reached US number 8, and includes "Wonderous Stories" and "Awaken".
Going in Style (2017 film)
Going in Style is a 2017 American heist comedy directed by Zach Braff, starring Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Alan Arkin as retirees who rob a bank.
Going My Way
Going My Way is a 1944 Paramount musical comedy-drama directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby as Father Chuck O'Malley and Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbon; it won seven Oscars including Best Picture and was Paramount's top-grossing film of its time.
Going Overboard
Going Overboard (1989) is a low-budget American comedy, Valerie Breiman's directorial debut, starring Adam Sandler as cruise-ship waiter Schecky Moskowitz; his first lead film role, shot in six days for $800,000 and later disavowed by Sandler.
Going Places (1974 film)
Going Places (Les Valseuses) is Bertrand Blier's 1974 French comedy-drama, adapted from his own novel, starring Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Miou-Miou as drifters on the run; a banned-to-under-18s box-office hit that remains controversial.
Going postal
Going postal: American slang for extreme, often violent workplace rage, from a series of USPS shootings beginning with Patrick Sherrill's 1986 Edmond, Oklahoma massacre that killed 14.
Going Postal
Going Postal is Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel (2004), first of the Moist von Lipwig books, in which a con artist must revive Ankh-Morpork's Post Office against the clacks semaphore monopoly; adapted for Sky1 in 2010.
Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold
Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold is a 2025 feature-length documentary by Tad Sallee and Jason Sikorsky about the Postal video game franchise and Tucson studio Running With Scissors, released May 30, 2025 after a five-year shoot.
Going Seventeen
Going Seventeen (고잉 세븐틴) is SEVENTEEN's self-produced Korean web variety show on YouTube, launched 2017 as vlogs and restructured into a themed variety format in 2019, known for the Don't Lie Mafia series, over 200 episodes, and roughly 1.5 billion views.
Going Shopping (song)
Going Shopping is a 2026 song by The Strokes, lead single of their seventh album Reality Awaits, released April 7, 2026 on Cult Records/RCA. Produced by Rick Rubin, it features heavily autotuned Julian Casablancas vocals and satirical lyrics on consumer culture, and a Walton Goggins music video.
Going the Distance (2010 film)
Going the Distance is a 2010 American romantic comedy directed by Nanette Burstein, starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long as a couple in a long-distance relationship.
Going to the People
Going to the People (Хождение в народ) was an 1874 campaign in which thousands of Russian revolutionary youth carried socialist propaganda to the peasants, who did not respond.
Going-to-the-Sun Road
Going-to-the-Sun Road is the 50-mile historic highway crossing Glacier National Park, Montana, over Logan Pass (6,646 ft) on the Continental Divide. Completed 1932, dedicated 1933; National Historic Landmark and National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark; no vehicle reservations required in 2026.
Goirias Chaos
Goirias Chaos is a 470-km-wide chaos terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 10.77°N, 180.75°W; IAU-named in 2022 after a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Celtic mythology.
Goita
Goita (ごいた) is a four-player partnership tile game from Ushitsu, Noto, Ishikawa, Japan, played with 32 shogi-named tiles; players match attack tiles, score by the last tile played, and race to 150 points.
Goitre
Goitre: enlargement of the thyroid gland causing a neck swelling, mainly from iodine deficiency, nodules, thyroiditis, or hyper/hypothyroidism; treated by observation, medication, radioiodine, or surgery.
Gojek
Gojek, also known as PT Gojek Indonesia, is an Indonesian multi-service platform offering rides, food delivery, payments, and logistics; it became Indonesia's first unicorn in 2016.
Goji
Goji (枸杞, Gouqi Zi), the berry of Lycium barbarum and L. chinense (Solanaceae), is a Chinese medicinal and functional food; ~90% of commercial goji is L. barbarum, rich in polysaccharides and zeaxanthin.
Gojihvadi kvatha curna
Gojihvadi kvatha curna (Gojihvadi Kwath Churna), an Ayurvedic coarse-powder decoction from Siddhayoga Samgraha, standardized in API Part-II; Onosma bracteatum with licorice, fennel, and others, used for kapha fever and respiratory ailments.
Gojira (1984 film)
Gojira (ゴジラ, The Return of Godzilla) is Toho's 1984 kaiju film directed by Kōji Hashimoto, reviving Godzilla after nine years as a direct sequel to the 1954 original; re-cut with Raymond Burr as Godzilla 1985.
Gojira (band)
Gojira: French metal band formed 1996 near Bayonne (originally Godzilla), led by brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier; known for technical/progressive death metal, environmental lyrics, Magma (2016), Fortitude (2021), and the 2024 Paris Olympics performance.
Gojjam
Gojjam (Amharic: ጎጃም) is a historical region and former province of northwestern Ethiopia, lying almost entirely within the great bend of the Blue Nile, or Abay, river.
Gojjam revolt
The Gojjam rebellion was a peasant uprising in Gojjam Province, northwestern Ethiopia, beginning in May 1968 against a new agricultural income tax under Haile Selassie.