Re: AmE and BrE?

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:18:51 +1100, Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp@retep> wrote:

Just to make it clear, there are three languages spoken in Scotland.

- Gaelic is the traditional language that people spoke before the
English came along, from the time that the Scots migrated from
Ireland to Scotland. It is unrelated to English, except insofar
as both belong to the large Indo-European family of languages.
It is now a minority language.

I presume the Picts were there before the Scots migrated from Ireland -- does
anyone know what they spoke?


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