Folks, Sear.ie is absolutely correct. This desperately feeble, bigotry based attempt to distance Ulster Scots/Irish from Irish is an absurdity that is embarrassing to Ulster Scots/Irish like myself. Jack McCorkell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Searc.ie" <info@searc.ie> To: <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Wir efter a Ulster-Scots boadie! > Hi, > I think it is ridiculous that an non-existent 'language' is being funded - > this is English with a Scots accent written down phoenetically. It would be > like funding English as spoken in Yorkshire and saying it was a different > language than English.. No-one in Donegal speaks like this and they > certainly don't write like that - gobbledygook is right. > Regards, Patricia Sharkey > Dun-na-nGall.com > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > Try searching the Obituaries at Rootsweb: Interactive search > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obituary/obituary.pl > To browse through the archives of the list go to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Visit my homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.com/~donegaleire > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >