Queen Elizabeth II disrespected by Scottish officer!

[NovaBritannia]

I was under the impression that the recent thinking was the Picts were Celts, but it would definitely be interesting if they were the true Beaker people.

It's funny, the use of 'Inver' down in my area - Inverclyde district for example - you'd think that'd be Welsh... but somehow Aberclyde just doesn't have the same ring. I'd guess the term was only developed recently for the region anyway.

Just out of curiosity, how many 'Strath__'s are there over Scotland?

[Ceann-Mhor]

The p-Celtic lanuguage of much of Southern Scotland and the Kingdom of Strathclyde (the "Strath" in Strathclyde comes from the Gaelic "srath") was replaced by the language of the incoming q-Celtic Scots in the 6th-8th centuries (approx). Hence placenames such as Penicuik (p-Celtic) and Balerno (Gaelic) in the same area.

[Celyn]

Originally posted by Ceann-Mhor
.......(the "Strath" in Strathclyde comes from the Gaelic "srath") .........

I had understood (perhaps wrongly) that "Stathclyde" was from the Welsh "Ystrad Clud". Oh well, we're sort of getting into "Language" forum territory here, I suppose.

[Scottish_Republican]

Originally posted by Celyn

I had understood (perhaps wrongly) that "Stathclyde" was from the Welsh "Ystrad Clud". Oh well, we're sort of getting into "Language" forum territory here, I suppose.

Srath and Ystrad are cognate. Certainly Gaidhlig was spoken in upper Strathclyde/

[scotbot]

Originally posted by Scottish_Republican
Certainly Gaidhlig was spoken in upper Strathclyde/

Gaidhlig was spoken all over Strathclyde, sometimes at the same time as Scots (as in Shettleston) and sometimes concurrently with Cumbric (as in Darvel).

[SirKnight1788]

He should be court marshaled and futhermore dihonnorably discharged he should be stripped of his rank and publicaly humiliated like Dreyfuss in the French Army.

A man like him is a disgrace to Scotland he gives the impression of a poor officer with a total and utter direguard for respect and authority.

How dare he and he knows exactlty what he was doing by the grin on his face the photographer is also at fault he/she should have told the man in question to (quietly) to stop what he was doing.

[Celyn]

Originally posted by SirKnight1788
He should be court marshaled and futhermore dihonnorably discharged he should be stripped of his rank and publicaly humiliated like Dreyfuss in the French Army.

A man like him is a disgrace to Scotland he gives the impression of a poor officer with a total and utter direguard for respect and authority.

How dare he and he knows exactlty what he was doing by the grin on his face the photographer is also at fault he/she should have told the man in question to (quietly) to stop what he was doing.

Would that be the same Dreyfus whose "conviction" involved forged documents, who was later pardoned, and in respect of whom the French Army eventually admitted it had been wrong (even if it took them until about 1995 to do so)?

After being "court marshaled and futhermore dihonnorably discharged he should be stripped of his rank and publicaly humiliated", is he to be sent to Devil’s Island too?

Mellow wee soul, aren’t you? In the alternative universe run by SirKnight1788, is the bloke to get a fair trial before all these dire things happen? I wonder what the charge would be: really, "being rather underdressed in a boring photograph, thus upsetting SirKnight1788" just doesn't sound much to go on.

J’accuse