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Well I do not like it when OH is right
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 16 Aug 2014 13:36 |
both my g.parents were Manx speakers and always used it when they did not wish their children to hear their conversations - even when those children were adults |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 16 Aug 2014 11:07 |
The Lord's Prayer ? Surely not. |
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Huia | Report | 16 Aug 2014 05:22 |
Ooh, is somebody going to RR Rollo the Red for bad language? :-0 |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 Aug 2014 22:53 |
One of the guys in my tree was a Manx man and fluent in the language. The first native Manx Bishop of Sodor & Man since the 1300s, and the last Manx-speaking one. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 15 Aug 2014 22:05 |
Heaven only knows RR. A walk around Rushen graveyard and OH remarked there only seemed to be about 4-6 surnames all intermarrying. |
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Rambling | Report | 15 Aug 2014 18:45 |
Chris I wonder how many of the people I used to know in the IOM were Viking by descent :-) No pillaging or plundering though I do remember the Viking festival on the beach at Peel ( about 1969 lol) lots of running around in horned headgear :-) |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 15 Aug 2014 17:12 |
Hope this works now RR - I will look at the article. Have looked - very interesting -no doubt himself will be glued. I love the cartoon - do not see any resemblance however as a family we do have large eyes and large ear lobes ;-) |
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Rambling | Report | 15 Aug 2014 16:29 |
Hi Chris, can you remove some .... please lol it has stretched the post right off to the right :-D |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 15 Aug 2014 16:23 |
I have always been very proud of my Manx roots (both my paternal |