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Lovely language to listen to, but few speakers. My late dad was fluent, but -- like most Scots -- I know only a few basic greetings, whatever crept into the Scots Lallans dialect I picked up as a lad (eg: a la Rabbie Burns) and, of course, some curse words and phrases you could use with a smug smile and complete safety in English and Welsh pubs (though not in Ireland where their own Gaelic is so close to ours). Also, by the way, used to know all the warning shouts used in Nova Scotia, Canada where danger cries in the mines were (at least until the seventies) in Gaelic. Slainte ba. Neil
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