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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2h

Cymraeg is massively friendlier to dyslexics than English!

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2h

(except from Esperanto)

Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2h

This post is now reminding me of my experience messing about with learning Welsh, where after getting my heid round the basic rules it suddenly became the most straightforward language I've ever encountered

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social · 3h

Early morning light at the Isle of Whithorn, Galloway.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway

Atmospheric black and white photo of a rugged coastline around a bay, with dark clouds obscuring the sun.

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 4h

Basically any Scottish name or placename that contains a Z

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 13h

Seo Davey Graham, key player in the 1960s British folk revival - and apparently a fluent Gaelic speaker. Wrote the classic 'Anji' and helped popularise DADGAD tuning. He was from a mixed race background, his mother being Guyanese and his father being Sgitheanach!

#BlackHistoryMonth

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 21h

🎯 Our #totaliser reaches 83%!

Can YOU help us get over the line?

🎯 tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Fundraiser target, with £8,255 of £10,000 raised.

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 20h

So true lmao he's gone nuclear now Ruth Davidson isn't about as much and he has nothing else to talk about

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 21h

5) Dìleab Ailein
The Legacy of Allan MacArthur - Newfoundland Traditions Across Four Generations

Margaret Bennett

This one is a CD and a book, fully recommend if you can get it. Comhairle na Leabhraichean definitely had some

Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 21h

4) The Last Stronghold: The Scottish Gaelic Traditions of Newfoundland

Margaret Bennett

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 21h

3) Urban Highlanders: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900

Charles W.J. Withers

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 21h

2) Glasgow's Gaelic Place Names

Alasdair C. Whyte with Katherine Forsyth and Simon Taylor

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 21h

Media language laws like in Quebec, for example D*isley only allowed to continue stealing a living if he writes in Classical Gaelic

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 22h

'Nuair chuir iad uinnein puinsein

Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 22h

Hard to read this as anything but you have been radicalised by online far-right extremists

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 1d

🔴 NEW: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used 3D scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine in propaganda videos for its operations in Gaza, Iran and Syria.

Our latest: theferret.scot/idf-s...

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 1d

Ofc, the name is apparently inspired by some graffiti in Berlin that read "Rudolf Hess, all alone, dancing the Spandau Ballet"

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 1d

Mildly interesting Rudolf Heß story: when he crash landed next to Eaglesham Moor, he tried to claim that his name was 'Alfred Horn'. My great-grandfather (who lived in Fife) freaked out and was very angry by all accounts, because his name actually was Alfred Horn!

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Rudolf Heß lived long enough to hear Frankie Goes to Hollywood on SFB Radio

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 1d

Spandau ballet as well!

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

source:
www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/43326?...

Oidhche Shamhna ann an Arainn. - Tobar an Dualchais

www.tobarandualchais.co.uk

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

On Arran, it appears to have been pronounced with the 'mh' making a 'v' sound (like mhath for example), like 'Saaven'

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d

For those outside of Ireland, Samhain is pronounced kinda like sowwen 🎃

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

Source:
www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Directly quoted from here

The Gaelic speaking slaves of 18th Century America

It was jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie who inspired research into the Gaelic speaking black slaves of 18th Century America who spoke in the tongue of their Highland masters.

www.scotsman.com

Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie and his connection to Gaelic
#BlackHistoryMonth

(Gillespie ofc being a gaelic name, derived from Gille Easbaig)

Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

Gillespie often regaled his friends with stories of how the Scots had influenced the blacks in his home state of Alabama. He spoke to his long-time collaborator, Willie Ruff, a bassist and French horn player, about how his parents told of the black slaves who spoke Gaelic,the tongue of their masters

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

“Dizzy used to tell me tales of how the blacks near his home in Alabama and in the Carolinas had once spoken exclusively in Scots Gaelic. He spoke of his love for Scotland…..”

#BlackHistoryMonth

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Andy - Lowland Gaelic @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social · 2d

Gillespie often regaled his friends with stories of how the Scots had influenced the blacks in his home state of Alabama. He spoke to his long-time collaborator, Willie Ruff, a bassist and French horn player, about how his parents told of the black slaves who spoke Gaelic,the tongue of their masters

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