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   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "allan connochie" :   
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   >"Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
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   >> Scríobh "allan connochie" :   
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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.   
   >   
   >That is true though I didn't say identical relationship just similar.   
      
   For sufficiently vague meanings of similar.   
      
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