Re: Swedish?

From: Richard Wordingham Message: 444
Date: 2003-02-24

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

The Celtic-speaking Irish would probably be more tolerant than the
English-speaking Irish 'nationalists'!

Richard.

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