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thecaptain – Member
Seemed a bit disappointed when I confidently ordered the An Teallach Ale by name He was right, it was good though…

Personally I’d not really have much of a clue how to pronounce gaelic names. How do you say an teallach? an tal-lak?

I think uisge beatha = ooshka va. which i’m guessing is where the word whisky comes from, a bastardisation of ooshka?

Oh teh ironing!

An challach is close enough 🙂

Avoch
Alves

scotroutes – Member
Oh teh ironing!

It’s been a long long time since Gaelic was the mother toungue of scotland particularly in central scotland. I’m all for the promotion of gaelic, but it’s a bit of a false construction to claim it as the tounge of all scotland imo, scotlands a bit of a mishmash in that respect.. All the dual signs and that are nice, but they’re really just there for tourist purposes, they obviously have more relevance the more north and west you go, I’m not denying that..

Ulster Gaeilge would be more relevant to me personally than Scottish Gaidhlig (Though they are pretty much sister dialects I think, I know my granny could understand scots gaelic easily enough.).

Kilncadzow = kill-cay-gay

It”s quite near Ravenstruther (or Renstrie )

Anstruther

Ainster to the locals.

Let’s stick in Lergy while we are on a roll, Alexander Selkirk statue gives it away

Ones like Strathaven annoy me. If you want your place name to be pronounced Straven, why did you stick “tha” in the middle? Either fix the spelling, pronounce it Strathaven, or **** off.

Same goes for essentially all of wales.

Have we left out ‘dry-men’
… I believe it’s north of millin gavie?