--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:

> You mean that British is actually southern Celtic? Am I

misinformed about Irish folks speaking Celtic? Then what do the
Irish speak? Gaelic?

>
> Gerry

I don't think Celtic-speaking Irish would like you calling them
Brits, since the majority of them live in the Republic of Ireland, a
state that was created because its inhabitats did not want to be
British.

Torsten