Conference tallis::celt

Gaelic shouldn't dropped as a language, laguages shouldn't be allowed to die.

Simon

    There's a WELSH-L also. Welsh is by no means as moribund as the idiot
    who wrote that garbage in .0 implies.
    
    Note: the Welsh for "condoms" is "sannau serch", which means "stockings
    of love". Isn't that poetical ?               :-)  :-)
    
    Dave
    ====

    Re .2. No, you've got that wrong. "sannau serch" means "stomachs of
    love". Because, as I understand it, the early condoms were made from the
    sensitive inner lining of the sheep's stomach.
    
    Or am I confused with Haggis?
    
    rgds
    Mark

    We're digressing a bit here, but...
    
    "Sannau" is the plural of "hosan", meaning a stocking or sock. The
    actual formal-language plural is "hosannau", but as it's accented on
    the middle syllable the first bit's been elided away. (Actually there
    may be only one "n" in it). I suppose it's the same as the Anglo Saxon
    word that has given rise to the English "hose".
    
    Re the sensitivity of primitive condoms: While I cannot comment
    personally on the sensitivity or otherwise of the sensations produced
    by wearing the lining of a sheep's stomach, Boswell calls wearing one
    of these "in armour", which doesn't seem very sensitive to me. However,
    when he didn't use one (I think he was bonking a whore on Westminster
    Bridge in the dark) he got a dose. I'm sure there's a moral there
    somewhere for us all...
    
    "Mi bryna'i yn Iwerddon SANAU sidan..."
    
    
    So now you know what Hosanna _really_ means. Hosanna in excelsis
    actually means "socks of the highest". Change them more often !!
    
    Dave
    ====

Hmm... so that's why kids always sing `While Sheperds Washed Their Socks'
at carol concerts...

Chris.

    I believe there's something in alt.sex.sheep.guts.yuk for those of an
    enquiring disposition...        :-)
     

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Huw.

O.N. the point about 'sannau' = socks is correct. 
     Love stomachs would come out as 'stumogau serch', not very romantic!

    A St Patrick's Day note !
    
    The more traditional name for condoms in Wales is "sachau dyrnu".
    "Sachau", as might be expected, means "sacks"; "dyrnu" means "to
    thresh" or "to thump". 
    
    This note is sponsored by the Romantic Celtic Twilight Society.
                                                                   

from The Irish People
March 28, 1995





                        MEANSCOIL WINS  100,000 GRANT

Yielding to a high-profile campaign, the British government has grudgingly
announced 100,000-a-year funding for Belfast's only Irish-language secondary
school, Meanscoil Feirste. Principal Fergus O'Hare said it would ensure the
school would continue to survive. An additional grant of 50,000 a year will
go to other Irish-language schools in the Belfast area.

Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, hit out at the "back-door" way in which
Meanscoil Feirste is to be funded. Direct ruler Pat Mayhew had announced
that the school would be funded through Making Belfast Work and the
Ultach Trust, which was set up to widen appreciation of the Irish language
and culture.

 Adams pointed out that the decision to fund the schools through Making
Belfast Work and the Ultach Trust continued the "second-class treatment"
of Irish-language education in the North. "It falls far short of the
proper recognition and funding required to run these schools on an
equal basis," he said.

 Mayhew admitted that parents and other supporters of the Meanscoil, many
from areas of marked disadvantage, were bearing a heavy personal burden,
both financial and physical, in keeping the school going. Said he, "I
was impressed by this, by the educational standards being attained, and
particularly by the desirability of an option of children leaving primary
schools to continue their education in the Irish language in Belfast."

 He added, "Bearing in mind the wider social and cultural benefits which
the school brings to disadvantaged areas in West Belfast, I have accepted
that special support for the school should be channelled from the Making
Belfast Work initiative."

 The move follows a campaign by the school and supporters to have the
British government provide financial support. Last November, the Department
of Education refused funding, on the excuse that the school had fewer than
300 pupils. The school, which started with nine children four years ago,
currently has around 100 pupils.

 Mr. O'Hare called on the Department of Education to give full recognition
to the school, pointing out that the 100,000 represents only around half
of what the school would be entitled to under full grant-aided status.

 He noted, however, that "The 100,000 that the Secretary of State has
announced will ensure that the school will continue to survive and will
continue to maintain the excellent educational standards. We feel that it
is a poor reflection on the Department of Education that it took the direct
intervention of the Secretary of State to produce this package."

 The move was welcomed by West Belfast MP Joe Hendron, who said he was
"delighted" at the funding announcement.
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