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Originally Posted by jafapete
Croi says, "Your ancestors could have been speaking English for the last 1000 years or more."
Thanks, Croiboy. Not sure when they switched to Gaelic, but they were still speaking Gaelic into the twentieth century (on the west side of Arran). I'm a bit dubious about the Strathclyde Briton thing, since there's not exactly a lot of documentation. Where did you learn all this stuff?
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No, thank you! Jaffacake.
But i see in your words, the very thought of having ancestors speaking English for such a prolonged period as this is very uncomfortable for you, you need to let go of your anger.
Anyway, as you will know any title with 'Briton' or any of it's related suffixes can be dodgy, however the term is a very age-old word.
Modern Strathclyde is only loosely based on the old kingdom of Strathclyde which went as far south as Morecambe (england) and spoke mostly the old 'British' language, in the more northern and westerly parts their language was mostly replaced with gaelic, and in the more southern and easterly parts it was replaced mostly by English. The kingdom was finally ended by the invading gaels around 1100AD.
To my knowledge Arran was never part of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde, Arran (i think) was part of Dal Riada for very early on, but for sure the native British speakers were conquered by the gaels and no doubt some were put to the sword.