>... >``But the day when the Manx fisherman >could freely in his native tongue to >the Irish and Scots fishermen is past. >... >Stephen Miller >stephen@vax.ox.ac.uk Mmmm---Stephen, I remember hearing as a girl from an old Cape Clear man now long since dead, that (I suppose it must have been in his father's time) the Irish, the Scots and the Manx would while away time spent far from home on fishing trips by swapping songs and stories, smart remarks and small matters of business, in Gaelic. I look forward to the future: your children, and the children of many on GAELIC-L, will pick up where their people had to stop. Cross-posting this to WELSH-L, so the Cornish subscribers there may be encouraged to learn Welsh and Breton. Prompted to do this by a letter which arrived in the post to me yesterday, which was written in flowing Cornish, with a parallel translation in English. Marion Gunn MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE