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Thread #62533   Message #1011918
Posted By: GUEST,Me again
03-Sep-03 - 07:50 AM
Thread Name: Uilleann Pipes
Subject: RE: Ullean Pipes
Foolstoupe is right on. Note how many spellings of 'Ullean' we have in this thread. A 17th (or 18th) century Englishman would use English phonetics to spell Gaelic words, so we'd get something like 'Ilian', and wonder if that was a slightly fouled up name of a Greek island.