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Nicky MacCrimmon
nickyrannoch
Will I be spending lock down Saturday making a thread of every reference to the state of Gaelic in Perthshire parishes from the Old Statistical Account 1791-99? In the meantime
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AlasdairStephen
AlasdairStephen
I was in audience of a programme called Cunntas about 20 yrs ago. The topic was the state of the Gaelic language. I was asked by my Irish friend Aoife,
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The Daily Gael
DailyGael
A crack guide to anti-Gaelic trolls: 1. The Deeply Unloved 100% FYOOMIN. This is your base level vanilla troll. Inhabits the Scotsman comments section. Externalises their inner pain by ranting
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Alex Mulholland
molach95
Angus MacLellan, a ploughman from South Uist, describes encountering #Perthshire #Gàidhlig when he worked there c.1889-1893 in an interview translated by John Lorne Campbell:"There was plenty of Gaelic in Perthshire
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Domhnall Macsween
sweenyness
Gaelic in the news today and shining a light on what’s actually going on. This is something that many of us in Gaelic speaking communities have been aware of for
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Donald I Macdonald
donald_i
I’ve little to add to the #gaelic #gàidhlig discussion that’s not already been said (better) - check out @sweenyness or @rhodameek, listen to the great interviews that went out on
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Neenaw
Here2read123
Thanks to poor advertising from @HighlandCouncil this post will be hidden despite only being put out now 2 weeks before the end of term. Gaelic teachers desperately needed around the
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Críostóir
Gille_Ruadh
Thread! Have you found that your views on speaking Gaelic have changed over the years? If so, how and why? Personally, I've started to become very disillusioned with the language
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Gordon Maloney
gordonmaloney
USE THE LOCKDOWN TO LEARN GAELICHere's a thread of FREE resources to do it:- the Duolingo course is very good & it's great to start. A top tip that lots
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GabeTwoThousand 🦇
GabeTwoThousand
I made a joke in a YouTube comment saying Scots are the Jamaicans of white people and before I could reply with a fun historical dive into the cultural parallels,
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Andy Arthur
cocteautriplets
There's some rather fabulous FOI requests on public record.For instance."I would like to know when the Scottish Government decided to put Gaelic on all of the road signs."All?(the answer was
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Alex Mulholland
molach95
If it's okay with @AbiLightbody I thought I'd sharethis in English re: #Gàidhlig in #Stirlingshire,exciting plans here for a museum in Fionn Treabh (Fintry) that will hopefully include Gaelic!Though Gaelic
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Johan S. McGuinne (Eòghan)
guektiengieline
Because most people seem to skip the most important points when I write ‘sa Ghàidhlig about the so-called sad state of our language, I'm going to stress the following points,
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Sandra FactCheck Alland
san_alland
Not saying to vote SNP esp with t*rf issues, but am super annoyed by that disabled & D/deaf access visual going around (English accounts) that says SNP manifesto has 0
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Gareth Roberts
garicgymro
A few reminders:Gaelic =/= CelticOld English wealh, wealas (>Welsh, Wales) wasn't the word for foreignerEnglish has more vowel-less syllables than WelshWelsh is not the oldest language in Europe by any
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Dr Gillian Kenny
medievalgill
One of the important roles for the wife of a Gaelic chieftain in medieval Ireland was to act as a patron of poets. Women lavished hospitality on poets to ensure
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