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   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "The Highlander"  wrote in message   
   news:ljtak25c1piam661ck8ahqchr2vgcvq84k@4ax.com...   
   > On 29 Oct 2006 17:17:07 -0800, "piperut"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >A few months ago I posted something on rec.travel.cruises and   
   > >soc.culture.scottish about if there was interest in doing a   
   > >Transatlantic Crossing and a tour of Scotland in 2008 that would   
   > >include the World Bagpipe Championships in Glasgow in August, and the   
   > >Edinburgh Tattoo, along with many of the historical sites in Scotland.   
   > >After the tour fly home.   
   > >   
   > >On Reformation Sunday the Presbyterian Churches hold a "Kirkin' of   
   > >the Tartan" service.  At the Kirkin'  the clans gather, and people   
   > >now bring district, and military tartans to be blessed in the   
   >   
   > >"Kirk".   
   > >(Kirk is Gaelic for Chruch.).   
   > Kirk is Scots for Church, from Dutch Kerk.   
   > The Gaelic for church is Eaglais as in Gleann Eaglais (Gleneagles) -   
   > Valley of the Church.   
      
   Quite so. I take it the word may have entered Gaelic from the Latin word   
   "ecclesia" as in "ecclesiastic".  The P-Celts used the word too hence the   
   various places named Eccles outwith the traditional Gaelic area. There is an   
   Eccles near Kelso and of course the better known one in Manchester.   
      
   cheers   
      
   Allan   
      
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