Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!elbereth!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill
From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: grooving with a pict
Message-ID: <888@sigma.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 19:38:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: sigma.888
Posted: Wed Oct  8 19:38:59 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 02:28:30 EDT
References: <565@mtunh.UUCP> <4035@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1041@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Distribution: net
Lines: 14

<1041@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> lindsay@same (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
><4035@brl-smoke.ARPA> floyd@brl.arpa (Floyd C. Wofford (MMW) <floyd>) writes:
>>A pict or Pict is a Scottish soldier.
>Please tell me you are not serious when you say this!!!
>	Pict, \fIpikt, n.\fR one of an ancient people of obscure[...]

I am curious.. I heard somewhere recently (sure wish I could remember where
I pick up these useless and generally inaccurate bits of information, I think
this time it was on National Public Radio) that about the only surviving bit 
of "Pictish" is a list of the names of some half-dozen chiefs, known only
for their names. Is this another fable?

>>It is possible that the accent might be some garbled Scotch.
Did you mean "gargled"? :-) -------------------^^^^^^^