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Old 07-24-2006, 01:13 PM
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough pictures of English mud.
That's good Scottish mud, that is. Much better than the common Sassenach type.
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Old 07-24-2006, 04:39 PM
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Much better than the common Sassenach type.
Strangely, in Gaelic, the word sassenach doesn't actually carry any negative connotations. It's only when it's used in English that it does (depending on who is saying it, of course).
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I've got ancestors on both sides of the border so I can interpret it any way I want *g*

In Gaelic, it just means "Saxon", as in "those guys over there".
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