XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:29:57 GMT, "Chess One"    
   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.   
   >   
   >True. He said they spoke either, or, ...   
   >Where they do speak a Gall as first language is on the west coast islands.   
      
   Your obvious unfamiliarity with the correct terminology is begining to   
   render you incomprehensible.   
      
   A Gall is a Lowlander/foreigner. Nobody speaks a Gall, whether   
   Lowlander or Highlander, any more than anyone speaks a Frenchman.   
      
   >There are also some isolated pockets on Mull. I remember staying in some   
   >lighthouse keepers cottages overlooking Iona, where Stevnson had done some   
   >writing. Wondering around I found some of the older folk with the Gaelic, no   
   >tv, and no electricity either. But that was a few years ago.   
   >   
   >Further up the coast [I won't be exact] there is a small colony of bothies   
   >which is accessed either by a 5 mile hike, or taking the row boat across the   
   >loch, and the natives have mostly left now, and the place occupied by   
   >writers.   
   >   
   >Phil Innes   
   >   
   >> Allan   
   >>   
   I wonder where that could be?   
      
      
   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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