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   From: Sober@glebestreet.co.scotland   
      
   On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:36:26 -0000, Walker  wrote:   
      
   > Cumbric was the ancient language of Scotland,   
      
   O *part* o Scotland.   
      
   > and unlike Pictish it can easily be reconstructed.   
      
   How, whit fae? A handfu o placenames that hae changed wi time?   
      
   > Aberruthven in the Welsh of Wales would be aber rudd faen.   
      
   So? This still disnae mean that the toun o that name in the heart o   
   Pictland is Cumbric -- ye say that Pictis is P-Celtic, but that theory is   
   foundit on the fact that there's placenames like this *in* *Pictland*. If   
   ye're claimin this name as Cumbric, then ye're sayin that there's nae   
   evidence for Pictis as a P-Celtic leid.   
      
   > What you do not understand is that Cumbric   
   > helps to unite the Celtic people of Albion (British Isle), for example   
   > people in Scotland once spoke a P-Celtic language.   
      
   *SOME* fowk in Scotland. There's nae evidence o them a speakin it. Modern   
   archaeological evidence puts the arrival o the Gaels in Scotland well   
   intae the BC, and modern geo-linguistic studies suggest there wis Germanic   
   tribes along the east coast of England aroun the same time.   
      
   > This if anything should   
   > also enhance the Q-Celtic language that is still spoken in the Highlands   
   > and the Isles.   
      
   How? As a man wi Q-Celtic Irish and Q-Celtic West-Coast-Scottish ancestry,   
   an a Norman-French surname that hit London wi Guillaume before flittin tae   
   the Pale o Dublin unner the Tudors, ah havnae any P-Celtic heritage, an   
   ah'm no gaun tae pretend tae.   
      
   > Why should not all Celts get together?   
      
   There's nae reason not tae.   
      
   > Cumbric can help and   
      
   How? What can yer theoretical leid dae that Proto-Celtic an the other   
   "common ancestor" theoretical leids cannae?   
      
   > our   
   > Celtic identity still remains under threat from Saxon encroachments.   
      
   Saxon? Yer a thousan years out there. The English arnae "Saxons", so ye   
   micht as weel tak aff yer leather armour an pit doun yer battleaxe.   
      
   > In   
   > addition, I hope that you do not feel insulted, but try the Saxon habit   
   > of   
   > adding a little water with your whiskey, and try this other Saxon habit,   
   > drink your whiskey from a glass and not straight from the bottle.   
      
   Saxon's didnae drink whisky -- or are ye tryin tae claim that Inglis folk   
   are a still Iron Age tribesmen?   
      
      
      
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