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   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "The Highlander"  wrote in message   
   news:jgkac35m23g84jbmlfi65jpk82n282v4u7@4ax.com...   
      
   >>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.   
      
   What is obvious to me about 'The Highlander' is that he is pseud from the   
   lowlands. Fife, forsooth! He has now made about 15 derogatory remarks while   
   presenting no sense whatever of which he speaks.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   yes, you wonder. though not really, eh? instead you suggest it is untrue and   
   there is no real wonder in your at all, lowlander   
      
   PI   
      
   >   
   > 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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