XPost: soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: josiah-jenkins@dsl.pipex.com   
      
   On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:52:03 -0000, I read these words from "True   
   Blue" :   
      
   >   
   >"Feck all sassanaigh" wrote in message   
   >news:1168911620.126274.254400@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >> sorry - i wanted to write this bit!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Ciaran wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Boedicia@isp.com wrote:   
   >>> > Charles Ellson wrote:   
   >>> >> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 07:59:14 -0000, "Walker"    
   >>> >> wrote:   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >>> "Charles Ellson" wrote in message   
   >>> >>> news:f1v2p2loqncmeirabloaq5chdu881hjqgd@4ax.com...   
   >>> >>>> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:52:53 -0000, "Walker"    
   >>> >>>> wrote:   
   >>> >>>>    
   >>> >>>>> Shipman is right. Sassenach means a speaker of the Saxon language   
   >>> >>>>> in the   
   >>> >>>>> British Isles, which includes just about everyone in the U.K.   
   >>> >>>>> except some   
   >>> >>>>> recent immigrants.   
   >>> >>>>>   
   >>> >>>> *nglish (language) = Beurla   
   >>> >>>>   
   >>> >>>> You had better take your dictionary back for a refund.   
   >>> >>> *nglish, I think that you have to learn how to spell the English   
   >>> >>> language   
   >>> >>> before writing about it.   
   >>> >>>   
   >>> >> I'm not *nglish.   
   >>> >   
   >>> > Are you a *cot?   
   >>> >   
   >>>   
   >>> Better for Alba to be completely independent within the EU. Citizens of   
   >>> Eire and Norway have a much higher standard of living than Scots -   
   >>> despite having oil deposits like Norway and the same innovative people   
   >>> with a wide diaspora like the Irish they are sucked dry by the English   
   >>> so that there is much higher unemployment and lower standard of living   
   >>> than the English.   
   >>   
   >   
   >That's right. The negotiations surrounding Scotland's independence should   
   >bear this in mind. As a means of compensation, I therefore propose that   
   >Scotland be awarded complete soveriegnty over the old English city of   
   >Liverpool, including all territory within a 25 mile radius of the centre of   
   >this valuable asset.   
      
   You're from Manchester, are you ?   
      
   -- jjj   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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