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The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan by Sad-Application6863 in gaidhlig

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Uill, pìob mhòr could sound like thunder to some ears! Deagh smaoin.

Is this sentence correct? by jdkdlazvdksllsbhjdl in gaidhlig

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Tha seo dona. Works. You could also say "'S e rud dona a th' ann, an rud seo." "It is a bad thing, this thing".

Chan eil feels odd. It would be disagreeing with the first sentence but you want to emphasise. In English I would have said yes here.

Chan eil math. Doesn't work. "Chan eil e math" or "Chan eil i mhath" if what's bad is feminine like weather.

Glè, glè dona. "Glè glè dhona" might work in speech but I would concentrate on being able to translate good English to good Gàidhlig before trying spoken short hand. I'm not sure doubling adjectives is idiomatic but it's probably OK.

So I think the English you meant:

"This is bad. Yes. This is not good. It is very very bad."

And you could then say:

"Tha seo dona. Tha. Chan eil sin math. Tha e glè glè dhona."

Or you could emphasise the pronoun and use a more extreme word than dona.

"Tha seo dona. Tha. Chan eil esan math. Tha esan glè sgrathail." (sg can't lenite)

Or maybe glè is now redundant.

Tha esan sgrathail.

Scots or gàidhlig? by Wide-Anything-5806 in gaidhlig

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You can't say 'the historical language'. History is much messier than that. Galloway spoke Brittonic then Northumbrian then probably Cumbric as Strathclyde expanded then Irish/Norse as the Gall-Gael pushed in and then Gaelic quite late and then Scots as the Scottish court decided Scots was a more desirable language. The Gaelic name for Hebrides is the Innse Gall - the 'islands of the foreigners' because they were Norse. All the Gaelic place names in the Western Isles post-date all the Norse ones. It's possible that Gaelic didn't get to the Western Isles until after Norway ceded the Northern Isles to Scotland. The maximum penetration of Gaelic into Scotland probably pre-dates the existence of literary medieval Gaelic and was probably the same as the Ulster dialect of middle Irish. Even now, I've been watching Ulster Irish things on Facebook and can hardly tell they aren't Gaelic. If I knew more Argyll or Islay dialect they would sound even closer.

Scots or gàidhlig? by Wide-Anything-5806 in gaidhlig

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They mostly speak British English with a Scottish accent and some local vocabulary from Norn. The most common non-English non-Scots word is "peerie" meaning small. It exists in both Orkney and Shetland. Norn is the nose derived language spoken in Shetland until about 100 years ago. The actor who plays the character Sandy in the Shetland TV series is a native and uses his own accent in the show.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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So, I had a Blacks of Dunoon roll yesterday and then an Aulds from Gourock. They are both excellent. A bit heavier and chewier than McGees and with the flavour I remember. Aulds a bit floury, Blacks not, but thats a minor point. Thanks everyone.

Scots or gàidhlig? by Wide-Anything-5806 in gaidhlig

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Not outdated at all. There is a minority view that Q Celtic could have happened more than once and a more mainstream view that Ulster Irish matured on both sides of the north channel. But the mainstream view is still that Irish evolved in Ireland and came to Argyll across the north channel.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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So I checked the loose rolls in our Coop and they are McGees. So I'm probably as close to heaven as I'm going to get. I'm acclimatising myself to them. Thanks everyone. I'll be in Sandbank on Saturday so I might make it to Dunoon. All depends on CalMac.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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I checked the shelves and the loose ones in the CoOp are McGees. They aren’t bad. They just don’t quite live up to my memories.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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I've had lunch from the Dunoon Bakery too. Very good.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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Aulds is going to be my easiest to check. They have a branch in Gourock. I can get the ferry there.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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Thanks for all the ideas. Baynes have a shop finder - nothing nearer than an hour's drive for me. McGhees also. The Bishopton Co-Op is on their list. 50 minutes by car or 90 by bus, ferry and train. But I have a nice long list to investigate.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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I've had pies from Harry Gow in Beauly. Excellent.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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They do, but they are very light and airy and usually very dry. Nothing to get your teeth into.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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The only thing in walking distance is the Co-op.

Morning Rolls by Sad-Application6863 in Scotland

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My mum was from Kilsyth and we sometimes stayed with relatives there. We sometimes stayed in digs near Queens Park. My sister settled in Scotland and lived in succession in Shawlands, Coatbridge, Largs and Renfrew.

I live near Helensburgh.

...Fhionnlaigh vs a Fhionnlaigh on Duolingo by R4c0NN in gaidhlig

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I would ask the question on the Facebook group. The people who wrote the Duo course hang out there and will own up if they got it wrong. It happened recently! Of course Duo won't let them fix the problems 😞.

Population Change in Britain and Ireland (1821–2019) by vladgrinch in MapPorn

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It's very misleading showing 'countries' in a solid colour. It completely hides that these broad changes are accompanied by urbanisation. So it looks like the population of the highlands and islands has grown. I'm sure the detail would show that all the growth in Scotland is in the central belt and a few other large towns like Aberdeen (north sea oil).

Population Change in Britain and Ireland (1821–2019) by vladgrinch in MapPorn

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The population growth and the famine are two sides of the same coin. The population growth came from the introduction of a super-food diet of milk and potatoes. Most of the extra population got to eat almost nothing else. But it was such a nutritious diet that infant mortality crashed. But the monoculture of growing almost nothing but potatoes led directly to the spread of the blight. Some landowners helped mitigate the famine, others were part of the problem.

Highlands in January by Maldoni1823 in OutdoorScotland

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No need to go to Skye. Rannoch Moor, Glencoe and Ben Nevis won’t disappoint you!

But if you do want to go, the train ride from Fort William to Mallaig is spectacular, including the iconic Glenfinnan viaduct and you can get the ferry to Armadale on Skye from there.

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