LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.08.12 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 12 August 2006 * Volume 01
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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>

>From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
>Subject: LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.08.06 (02) [E]
>
>On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:15, Lowlands-L wrote:
>
>>From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
>
>>At the very beginning there's a little boy running around shouting "Da!
>>Da! Da!".
>
>Scots? Or Welsh?
>
Scots - he's running around calling for his father, not shouting "Good!
Good! Good!" at random :)

>>This was the only Scots I noticed in the whole film.
>>
>>Some other gaffs: Historically, the Braveheart is Robert the Bruce, who
>
>Tell me more! Among the skeletons in my father's family closet happen to be
>an alleged descent from Robert the Bruce himself, via some attractive young
>woman of the Bruce clan, based in the Jedburg area. King Alfred the Great
>had his burned cakes for people to remember him by - Robert the Bruce had his
>persistent spider to remind him of his duty as the Scottish King and leader
>of Scotland's resistance.
>
The Bruce's heart was removed from his body and enshrined somewhere (no,
I'm not looking up Wikipedia cos you can do that as easily as me :)
This was "The Braveheart".

Everybody's descended from somebody!

Sadny Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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