Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1977.26.B1; SA1977.26.B1a
Original Tape ID
SA1977.026
Summary
Survivals of Gaelic in Victoria, Australia: words, phrases, proverb.
The contributor's mother was a fluent Gaelic speaker, but her father, whose mother was English, spoke only a little. The children laughed at them; she regrets the lost opportunity now. Her uncle, Murdoch MacDonald, lived with them. The children were sent backwards and forwards with verbal messages in Gaelic which they didn't understand. Later, the contributor discovered that the answer sometimes contained the word for 'a lie'. Her mother saw her sewing with a long thread and quoted a Gaelic saying, "Snàithlean fada an droch thàilleir," meaning that a long thread makes a bad tailor. She repeats some phrases that she learned at her grandmother's.
Non Scottish Recording Location
Australia
Language
English
Genre
Information
Collection
SoSS