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Thread #167243   Message #4032302
Posted By: Richard Mellish
05-Feb-20 - 04:07 AM
Thread Name: BBC Radio: Folk Map of the British Isles
Subject: RE: BBC Radio: Folk Map of the British Isles
Having read recent posts I'm glad I stopped listening when I did.

As for Caledonia; I have a very low opinion of that song because there's nothing in it that's specific to Scotland. You could change "Caledonia" to the name of any other country in the world and the song would make just as much (or just as little) sense.

And Gaelic a dialect? Well, the Gaelic (in English pronounced Gallic) of Scotland can be regarded as a dialect (or dialects?) of the Gaelic language, along with others from Man and different parts of Ireland; but is that what they meant?