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Old 8th May 2008, 22:58
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Gaelic has been in Scotland for at least 1500 years. To call it Irish, is a bit like saying that Moscow is still ruled by Vikings.
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Gaelic has been in Scotland for at least 1500 years. To call it Irish, is a bit like saying that Moscow is still ruled by Vikings.
Or England is full of Angles ?
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Well, English is at least a corruption of their name. Moscow hasn't been particularly Norse for a long time. England at least still speaks a language which evolved from Anglo-Saxon.

I wouldn't say the English were particularly German, but they do have some German and French traits to them - mainly through later contact.
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