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Wid dat no be Gaels or da lik, raider as Celts? (da Lewismen)

 

How aboot dem dat cem we da Ninian treasure, wid dae no be Celts?

 

I dunna kaen if onybody kaens dui dey? Hit's laekly back ta yun aald question aboot whidder da Picts wis Celtic or no. I tink I mind readin somewye at some o da metalwark buiried in Shaetlan somewye - maybe at Jarlshof - wis Irish kind, bit dat micht a been a immigrant Irish metalwirker.

 

BTW - Gaels is Celts, da sam wye at Spaniels is dugs! Dae'r twa different kinds o (livin) Celtic languages - Gaelic, Goidelic or 'Q' Celtic (Irish, Scottish Gaelic an Manx) an British, Brythonic or 'P' Celtic (Welsh, Cornish an Breton fae Brittany). Whin I say 'livin', Manx an Cornish actually deed oot, bit some fock is tryin ta kyucker dem up.

 

I doot da onny Celtic wirds i da Shaetlan spaek is laekly ta be Gaelic enes come doon trowe da Scots, laek 'loch'.

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ganzee is a ganzee in Irish gaelic tö am sure

 

An Scottish Gaelic tui. Dat's caase Gansies cam fae 'Guernsey' da sam wye at Jerseys cam fae Jersey, so while Standard English adoptit 'Jersey' as da generic term for a wirsit thing at you poo on ower your haed, idder tongues - Scots, Shaetlan, Gaelic - adoptit variations on 'Guernsey'.

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ganzee is a ganzee in Irish gaelic tö am sure

 

An Scottish Gaelic tui. Dat's caase Gansies cam fae 'Guernsey' da sam wye at Jerseys cam fae Jersey, so while Standard English adoptit 'Jersey' as da generic term for a wirsit thing at you poo on ower your haed, idder tongues - Scots, Shaetlan, Gaelic - adoptit variations on 'Guernsey'.

live n laern i doot lol, sam wye shampoo an bungalow can fae Indian??

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Spaekin o' ganzies an da laek, whaur cam joopy fae. Dir laekly few it uisis im noo-a-daes, bit he wis a coaminly uised is a kinda, whit da Ingleesh wid caa 'generic' nem fur onny kinda ooter bad. Im herd o' 'jup' bein uised fur ooter claes, dats laekly muckle da sam thing, bit I canna mind whitna tongue 'e belangs ta.

 

Cum ta dat, whaur cam 'bad', meanin a peece a claes cum fae?

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on the north yorkshire coast we have ganzies that fishermen wore. Each village had a different pattern so that if they were found washed up people knew where to take them. There's a ganzies festival in whitby.

 

I've got one my wife knit me, but they're knit from a fine denim yarn, not wool and fade and wash like a nice pair of old jeans.

 

May be ours has the same origins of name?

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Da Concise Scots Dictionary gies 'jupe', a jacket, short coat or loose tunic worn by men, recordit fae da laet 16th Century an on, noo hingin on juist in Orkney, Stirling an Fife. Fae Aald French [OF]. Mosst be da sam wird, an dem juist missed at hit hang on for a start langer in Shaetlan tui. So French richt aneoch, bit trowe general Scots, redder as fae antrin enes at wis wint ta hing aboot da Ness!

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