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Article: It might be Gaelic but they're still talking nonsense.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2000
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AS far as most of us knew, our Members of the Scottish Parliament could have been talking doolally.
To our own discredit, they were speaking one of our own native languages, the tongue of our forefathers, the speak of the Highlands and the Islands and the faraway places.
It was, for the first time in 700 years, a debate in the Scottish Parliament in the Gaelic.
The last time the language was spoken in the independent Scots Parliament was in 1307 when Robert the Bruce was in the chair.
Today, of 129 MSPs, only two are native speakers. Half ...