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I treat my native better than that E-S. And I do not approve of the rank and file wasting their schooling in a resurrected language. It should be for scholars who have proved they can take the 3 Rs and j notation in their stride. It was, except for the arcane procedure of passing Tynwald acts, dead when we arrived and long laid to rest and not like 'the Gaelic' in Scotland. Sometimes on the GTVs it was the working language of the crew (but too polite to use it in front of those without it), I met (many years ago) a lady who only had the Gaelic (on Skye) and presently have a Friday lunching friends whose first language it was (also on Skye). The resurrection of Manx is down to a few Frankensteinian nationalist (a passed Minister for Firestarting being one - one wonders what my Sovereign does for lighting the bonfires and barbeques now he has retired).
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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