XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:41:49 +0100, "Robert Peffers."   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   >news:OVpwi.35954$sI3.29312@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...   
   >>   
   >> "Chess One"  wrote in message   
   >> news:32pwi.355$7f.202@trndny09...   
   >>>   
   >>> "Robert Peffers."  wrote in message   
   >>>> Laughably you ignore the simple fact that most Scots still speak either   
   >>>> Gaelic or a form of Lowland Scots, or even both, in addition to Standard   
   >>>> English.   
   >>>   
   >>> They do not Sir, and you lecture someone whose name is Highland Scot.   
   >>>   
   >>> Scottish Gaelic has of habitual speakers now just 30,000 persons. Irish   
   >>> Gaelic some 22,000 speakers, Welsh 326,000 habitual speakers, and for   
   >>> Breton 250,000 habitual speakers. [census 1991] More understand it than   
   >>> speak it, particularly in Wales where the numner is 1.1 million people.   
   >>> But of Scots Gaelic only 55,000 now understand it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Almost all Scots do not understand the Gaelic, and are no longer   
   >>> Curadh-uasisle Inssi Gall. You understand this phrase?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I think you'd better reread what Bob said. He never claimed that most   
   >> Scots speak Gaelic.   
   >>   
   >> Allan   
   >>   
   >It is fairly obvious he is not really listening.   
   >More like a case of, "I've read the book and this is what it says". I   
   >suppose I could quote some text from Daemonology by Jaimie Saxt and a poem   
   >by Elizabeth I to demonstrate that Scots did indeed speak a different, but   
   >related language when Jaimie Saxt gaed doon til London. Daes the gadgie   
   >jalouse Jaimie Saxt an Ane wad, aiblins, spak wir ain leid tae the Iglis   
   >court? Cud wi doot he maun eyven hae a Scottish tune tae his Iglis leid?   
   >Efter aa twa unalik Kinricks ben twa unalik Kitras  maun mak eyven eydent   
   >lugs dirl.   
   >So to speak.   
      
   Man, you're coming on fine at the Gaelic! To think that all those   
   years I thought you were speaking Broad Scots!   
      
   Did ye ever ken sic an awfae sumph? Thi puir callant's as donnart as a   
   cuddie wi thi droddum o a besom stickit up hes erse! Whaur in the name   
   o Goad did ye finnd sic a haiverel?   
      
   The Highlander   
   Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,   
   togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus   
   toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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