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   From: babydriver3@postmaster.co.uk   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   news:457e4892@news.greennet.net...   
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   > "jb"  wrote in message   
   > news:uDTeh.84772$bz5.3327@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...   
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   > > "Shipman"  wrote in message   
   > > news:wqCdncMslMpgoubYRVnyjAA@bt.com...   
   > >> Because Sassanaigh mean a speaker of English then most of the   
   population   
   > > of   
   > >> Ireland are Sassaneighs, so fuck the Irish, quite rightly, I agree 100%   
   > > with   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Sassenach is the Gaelic word for Saxon.   
   > > FFS it dates from a time when English wasn't around.   
   > > The Irish children are like the Welch and nowadays the Scotch all taught   
   > > to   
   > > speak Gaelic.   
   >   
   > Where on earth do you get the idea that all Scottish children are taught   
   to   
   > speak Gaelic? Only a tiny minority of kids do so. Real world please!   
      
   Sorry Alan, I believed the rhetoric of the posters and didn't   
   google:-))   
      
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