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Thread #48495   Message #728508
Posted By: GUEST,Nerd
12-Jun-02 - 02:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lakes of Pontchartrain - Irish Words
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lakes of Ponchartrain - Irish Words
Andy's not a scotsman, anyway. He was born in England to a Scots father and an Irish mother. He was mostly raised in England, but moved to Ireland at 20, pretty much to stay. Since he's 60 this year, has lived in Ireland forty years now, considers himself Irish, and his mother's Irish, I think we can call him Irish. If not, the second most obvious identification would be English. Only hard-core patriarchal fanatics would say he's Scottish...