At 05:51 AM 00.06.17 -0800, Michael Everson wrote:
>Note that the short native term in each of these languages is 'Gaelic',
not
>"�ireannach", "Albanach", or "Manninagh".
I once heard the G�idhlig singer of the Scots folk music group Ossian
explain to an audience that there are three languages in Scotland: English,
Scottish (meaning the language of e.g. Robert Burns' poetry), and Gaelic
(which he pronounced "Gallic"). So it would seem that in English,
"Scottish" is not to G�idhlig what "Irish" is to Gaeilge.
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