Brilliant!

   Cheers, Paul

   _______________________________________________________________________

   From: Matt Seattle [mailto:[email protected]]
   Sent: 05 February 2010 19:29
   To: Paul Gretton
   Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
   Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation - pedantry warning


   It's all beyond me, I don't know my Erse from my Alba

   On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Paul Gretton
   <[1][email protected]> wrote:

   Good point! Similarly, we don't say "Deutsch" when we mean "German" or
   "Nederlands" when we mean "Dutch". In the same vein, it annoys me when
   various BBC pundits talk of the language of Iran as being "Farsi" as
   opposed
   to "Persian". (It seems btw that the Persian equivalent of the Academie
   Franc,aise would in any case prefer us to use "Persian".)

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