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BobKnight	Origins: The story behind MacPherson's Farewell (32)	RE: The story behind MacPherson's Farewell	22 Mar 18
There are very few gypsies in Scotland even to this day. The settled population referred to all travelling/nomadic peoples as gypsies, they did then, and they still do now. For instance all those "gypsy" reality shows on TV in recent years - none of them were gypsies - they were all Irish travellers, or "Pavee" as they are sometimes known. Just because the settled population doesn't know the difference and refers to Scottish, Irish, or English traveller's as gypsies, doesn't make them gypsies. Likewise in McPherson's time - the only scource in those times, would be people who didn't know the difference.

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