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GUEST,Scabby Douglas	Folklore: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect? (129* d)	RE: BS: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?	20 Oct 06
Apologies to Tom, incidentally. I think the breathtakingly dumb thing about the original stushie (great Scots word, that) is that Aoife is by no means an unusual given name, and it seems like it was the rendering of Boyle as NicBhaoille that they were objecting to. I suspect that some jobsworth objected to the fact that they wanted to give the daughter a different family name, and then attempted to justify it with the "must be English" argument. Which neatly misses the fact that "Boyle" is a surname of Irish origin. Breathtaking in its stupidity and arrogance.

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