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From: bill@sigma.UUCP
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Subject: How to spell sgean dhu? (Re: A bit more about Picts)
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 11:47:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 11:47:24 1986
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References: <78@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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In article <78@its63b.ed.ac.uk> csrdi@same (ECTU68 R Innis CS) writes:
>[...] And as
>for those who do call us English - anyone ever wondered why full highland
>dress includes a sgean dhu?	--Rick Innis

No, I use that line often..

BUT.. (for all you Gaelic scholars out there) how do you spell that?

I remember seeing: 
	sgean/skean/sghean(?)/sgian/sghian/skian
and	
	dhu/dhub/dubh/dhubh(once)
I'm less sure but may have seen:
	skene/skein(!)

(I hope to be learning Gaelic, if I can get the local teacher to get off 
his duff and start teaching again!)
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BIll Swan		sigma!bill