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BaronVonWreckedoften » 20 Apr 2023 16:59

Well said! Thieving bloody Jocks - if it's not nailed down.....

Actually, no - that's probably us as well.

Just remember it wasn't theft when our ancestors did it (we are just talking about ancestors, aren't we?), it was wealth redistribution- an honourable and worthy service to the community.

And of course, Scotland is named after us (after we liberated it from its previous owners).

You're all just displaced Welshmen.....

BaronVonWreckedoften » 21 Apr 2023 17:07

And of course, Scotland is named after us (after we liberated it from its previous owners).

Yes, Your Baronness. Our ancestors have done so much to promote world peace.

Etranger » 21 Apr 2023 18:42

You're all just displaced Welshmen.....

Not me, mate. Irish, Scots and English, if Ancestry can believed. Besides, I have proof I can't be Welsh- when I sing I sound like a constipated chook trying to gargle battery acid.

Etranger wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:42 am You're all just displaced Welshmen.....

More or less. The Picts spoke a Brythonic language - akin to Welsh. Hence, "Aberdeen" where "aber".meaning on the mouth of a river, is found in Wales too -Aberystwyth (which might also be found on eye charts).

Scottish Gaelic is a Goidelic tongue, as is its parent language "Irish". Interestingly, (at least I think it is) there's a fair amount of Pictish to be found in Scottish Gaelic but even more pronounced is the fact that the syntax leans towards Pictish. I like to speak to the Irish-speaking staff at school in Gaelic. We can mostly make ourselves understood to one another but I was told I both sound posh (as our language has a polite form that Irish doesn't) & uncouth as my grammar is "wrong".

Having bored you to tears, I return you to your usual program.....

donald

Actually very interesting!