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Subject: [Leica] Mo Dhia! Ta' tua sa mo cheann.
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Dec 23 15:43:10 2004
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Mo Dhia!  Ta' tua sa mo cheann.


Marc James Small wrote:

> At 04:45 PM 12/23/04 +0000, Alex Hurst wrote:
> 
>>Which being translated from the Gaelic means:
>>
>>Wishing you peace and happiness for Christmas and the New Year.
>>
>>Useful things, bi-lingual Christmas cards.......
> 
> 
> 
> Or as those of us bred to the fifth dialect of the Gaelic would say, 
> 
> Nollaig chridheil agus bliadhna mhath ?r.
> 
> (Historically, Ireland was divided into four provinces, Ulster, Munster,
> Connaught, and Leinster.  Leinster is the eastern and south-eastern area of
> Ireland.  This was the area of greatest British penetration -- have you
> heard the phrase, "beyond the Pale"?  The Pale was a physical line within
> which it was illegal to speak the Gaelic, my dears.  As a result, the
> Leinster dialect was extinct by 1600.  Thus, Scots Gaelic seems distinct
> from the Irish but it really is just a fifth dialect of the auld tongue,
> with a missing conjunctive tongue eliminated through the harshness of Saxon
> hearts.  Alba 'gus Erin Gu Brath!)
> 
> Beannachd leibh,
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
> 
> 



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