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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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Ian H said:
But with added Ks.
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Kornish then.
 
Ian H

Ian H

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secretsqirrel said:
Kernow or Cernyw in Welsh (pronounced as English words “care“ “new” with a rolled ‘r’).

Kernev in Breton.

Sorry do these count as foreign words? I guess I’m Ok on this side of the wall. ^_^
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On a side note, the Welsh Llan, meaning parish, appears elsewhere through Britain and Brittany. In Cornwall and Devon it's Lann, but often disguised as in Landkey, Lamorran and Launceston (all after saints).
 
First Aspect

First Aspect

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glasgowcyclist said:
What a vivid imagination you have. Actually, I’d be doing just what I’m doing now, laughing at you.



Don’t worry. You’ve made your view of Scots and Scotland quite clear.
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Great, glad you are happy. So what about this anti Gaelic sentiment? Any examples of how this manifests itself?
 
First Aspect

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Ian H said:
On a side note, the Welsh Llan, meaning parish, appears elsewhere through Britain and Brittany. In Cornwall and Devon it's Lann, but often disguised as in Landkey, Lamorran and Launceston (all after saints).
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I was once told stuff like this but it went right through and out the other side. Pol as in Polperro, Polruan, Polzeath, Poland - body of water, often a cove. Pen as in Penzance, Pensilva, Penrith - a settlement. But like "ton" in English I suppose.

(I might have sneaked a couple of fake ones in there)
 
Ian H

Ian H

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First Aspect said:
I was once told stuff like this but it went right through and out the other side. Pol as in Polperro, Polruan, Polzeath, Poland - body of water, often a cove. Pen as in Penzance, Pensilva, Penrith - a settlement. But like "ton" in English I suppose.

(I might have sneaked a couple of fake ones in there)
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Pen is pretty much always a hill or headland.
 
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First Aspect said:
Great, glad you are happy. So what about this anti Gaelic sentiment? Any examples of how this manifests itself?
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I have no 'evidence' to show (partly because I didn't think it would be brought to trial on a Cycling forum) but having lived here for the last 43 years of my life, trust me, I've seen heard and argued with it.


To be honest with you, much as I know Scotland could make it as a small European nation (with a hard time at first), I sometimes think that we don't deserve independence because we are too half - witted about things! 🤣
 
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Mad Doug Biker said:
I have no 'evidence' to show (partly because I didn't think it would be brought to trial on a Cycling forum) but having lived here for the last 43 years of my life, trust me, I've seen heard and argued with it.


To be honest with you, much as I know Scotland could make it as a small European nation (with a hard time at first), I sometimes think that we don't deserve independence because we are too half - witted about things! 🤣
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With a hard time at first. The "at first" would be a couple of decades at least, with no guarantee of any net benefit ever. This main issue with Scottish indy politics is that it is a gamble with the lives and prospects of people who aren't even born yet, and in the meantime you could even argue it is intentional sabotage of the prospects of Scotland in the UK to prove a point.

Sounding to me increasingly that anti Gaelic sentiment isn't really a thing other than some casual whining in a pub somewhere. No offense.
 
Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec

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First Aspect said:
With a hard time at first. The "at first" would be a couple of decades at least, with no guarantee of any net benefit ever. This main issue with Scottish indy politics is that it is a gamble with the lives and prospects of people who aren't even born yet
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The alternative is to roll over & allow successive increasingly populist Anglocentric Westminster governments to inflict their horrifying damaging choices on Scotland. Which seems to have gone incredibly well since we fücked up our one & only chance to get away from these cünts.

I'm typing this while listening to Starmer - in Glasgow - talking about placing the UK on a "war fighting footing" and stockpiling bombs, bullets & nukes. Which they'll doubtless want to dump 20 miles from Scotland's major centres of population.
 
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Xipe Totec said:
The alternative is to roll over & allow successive increasingly populist Anglocentric Westminster governments to inflict their horrifying damaging choices on Scotland. Which seems to have gone incredibly well since we fücked up our one & only chance to get away from these cünts.

I'm typing this while listening to Starmer - in Glasgow - talking about placing the UK on a "war fighting footing" and stockpiling bombs, bullets & nukes. Which they'll doubtless want to dump 20 miles from Scotland's major centres of population.
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You know how important economically all of this dumping of military personnel and equipment is to Scotland?

Are UK governments *increasingly* Anglocentric? What's changed in the last 20 years? The only major change seems to be devolution, handing a large degree of autonomy to Scotland. How has that been going?

The reference to your English neighbours as female genetalia says it all.
 
Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec

Something nasty in the woodshed
First Aspect said:
The reference to your English neighbours as female genetalia says it all.
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Describing a government based in, elected in, and near-exclusively focused on England as "cünts" plainly doesn't say what you're frantically fantasising that it does, but don't let that stop you.

Apropos of absolutely less than fück-all, I've lived in Scotland since the late 80s but I was born & grew up in Kent.
 
First Aspect

First Aspect

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Xipe Totec said:
Describing a government based in, elected in, and near-exclusively focused on England as "cünts" plainly doesn't say what you're frantically fantasising that it does, but don't let that stop you.

Apropos of absolutely less than fück-all, I've lived in Scotland since the late 80s but I was born & grew up in Kent.
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Well you see, being English in Scotland under that political climate, I feel that I'm entitled to tell you how it made me feel rather than be told how I should feel about it.

Are the Scottish MP cnuts as well, or just the English ones?
 
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