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by david macdiarmid » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:31 pm
Hi Guy's,I have enjoyed the input from everybody on this topic

To think that we have had questions and answers from three Continents,it makes the Planet seem quite small.I'm really glad that Wilma's Son is encouraged or indeed taught to speak Scots =D> This is not a conversation we should be having in the 21st century, but unless we try and protect this wonderful language Scots and the Gaelic may die off.As i said before a lot of the musical and magical sounding words have maistly gone
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.Wilma quoted one of them Birl or Birlin' ,how could an English word replace that? what about "Smeddum" or "tapsalteerie" or "stramash" or "trauchle" or "hirdum-dirdum" or "forpet o' tatties" or "corrieneuchin" and i love this one "speug" for the house Sparrow.There are thousands of these wonderful words.Strangely Moray Lass ,Wilma and myself, three out of millions, were not just discouraged from using our ain tongue but beaten with the belt or tawse if we slipped from english to Scots and the Moray Lass was told off at work 12 years ago for speakin' the Doric.How on Earth has this come about? Does it go back to 1746 and the aftermath of Culloden Moor,where the Highland Language,Dress and Culture were systematically removed from these poor folk?
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Or is it something 19th or 20th century? It didn't seem to affect Christian in her long life as she seems to have the perfect grasp of both languages.Anyway,just a thought,Slainte Mhor,David
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Kelly,Leburn,Livingston,MacDonald,Paris,Reymond,Russell,Sommerville,Sutherland & Watson.All Scottish searches,apart from the four obvious French names.Merci Beaucoup !!!