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   From: walker@btinternet.com   
      
   "Sober Scotsman"  wrote in message   
   news:op.tmofh5jk26m2qc@62-30-181-114.cable.ubr06.edin.blueyonder.co.uk...   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >    
   Whisky used to be distilled in the Pennines, but this "English" whiskey   
   ceased to be made sometine in the 19th. cent. By all accounts it was very   
   good, and was made using acid peaty water.   
      
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