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To: sionnsar
The blessing seems short to me, but I'll let you make the call. Here goes:

Some hae meat wha canna eat
And some would eat that want it
But we hae meat and we can eat
Sae let the Lord be Thankit. ~Robert Burns

This blessing has hung on my grandmother's dining room wall for as long as I can remember. I distinctly remember my mother explaining to me the meaning of "want" (lack) in the blessing because I couldn't figure it out, at the time.

It'd be nice to have it in Scottish Gaelic, but if you can't do it, don't fash yourself over it.

3,522 posted on 11/11/2005 9:10:18 AM PST by Alice au Wonderland (Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash. - American proverb)
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To: Alice au Wonderland

YHmmm... rhyming that too...


3,523 posted on 11/11/2005 9:15:46 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azad)
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To: Alice au Wonderland
Oh, boy, is it ever rusty! I'm not guaranteeing the grammar...

Tha feadhainn feòil aca; cha foad iad ithe
Agus iarraidh feadhainn; chan eil feòil aca
Ach tha feòil againn agus faod sinn ithe
Mar sin taing An Tighearna!

For an American you'd say it thus: ("ch" is as in German, or Scots "loch", "CH" as in English "ch", "E" is how you pronounce the letter 'E' but don't emphasize it, emphasis indicated by apostrophe):

"ha fay'yEnn fE'ooil ak'ha; cha fuud' E'at E'hya
ah'goose yar'rE fay'yEnn; chahn yell' fE'ooil akha
ach' ha fE'ooil ahk'Enn ah'goose fuud' shinn E'hya
mar shin taink' ahn CHEr'na!

("feòil", meat or flesh, is a little difficult to render)

3,532 posted on 11/11/2005 9:47:51 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azad)
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