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   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "allan connochie" :   
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   >"Chess One"  wrote in message   
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   >> "Robert Peffers."  wrote in message   
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   >> I had just wondered what you meant by your list, Bob. Obviously lowland   
   >> scots would have to speak something, and I wondered what your emphasis   
   >> was? Certainly 'most highlanders don't speak a form of lowland scots   
   >> [dialect]' and most lowland scots don't speak Gaellic. Even 'standard'   
   >> English is a [invented] dialect, courtesy the BBC.   
   >   
   >All forms of speech are dialect. That of course includes Gaelic which also   
   >shares a similar relationship to Irish that Scots shares with English.   
      
   Not quite. I'd submit that while Scots and English have grown closer   
   over the past 400 years or so, Irish and Scots Gaelic have grown   
   farther apart.   
      
      
      
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