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    #602
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Are you all dead?

    Which islands are called Eileanan nan Caorach in Scottish Gaelic?


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    #603
    looksee
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    Dunno about dead, but there don't seem to be many of us about!

    No idea of the answer to the question, but thanks for posting it!


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    #604
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    (I must learn to read the questions properly...)


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    #605
    looksee
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    Of course the answer to the question 'are you all dead?' the answer is 'no'.

    Do I get brownie points and a question for that? :D


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    #606
    enfield
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    Sheep Island?


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    #607
    feargale
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    enfield wrote: »
    Sheep Island?

    FYP

    No but it translates literally as that, save for the FYP. It would be Oileàin na gCaorach in Irish.

    Try again.


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    #608
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Come on folks. It's British overseas.


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    #609
    looksee
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    Google translate claims the Irish translates as Sheep Islanders, but I think you may have to tell us as it doesn't look as though you have any takers :D


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    #610
    keane2097
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    Faroes?


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    #611
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    Google translate claims the Irish translates as Sheep Islanders, but I think you may have to tell us as it doesn't look as though you have any takers :D

    We're talking Scottish Gaelic, not Irish. Their name in Irish is taken from the English, though I have heard one or two people who wouldn't be renowned Anglophiles call them something else in Irish.


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    #612
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    We're talking Scottish Gaelic, not Irish. Their name in Irish is taken from the English, though I have heard one or two people who wouldn't be renowned Anglophiles call them something else in Irish.
    keane2097 wrote: »
    Faroes?

    No. As I said, British overseas.


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    #613
    looksee
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    feargale wrote: »
    FYP

    No but it translates literally as that, save for the FYP. It would be Oileàin na gCaorach in Irish.

    Try again.

    That's the one I was referring to?


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    #614
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    That's the one I was referring to?

    Sorry. We're at cross purposes. I was simply translating the Scottish Gaelic name literally to Irish but that is not what they are called in Irish. The islands are not Irish.

    P.S. There are a few islands called Sheep island (singular) but these are plural.


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    #615
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    P.S. There are a few islands called Sheep island (singular) but these are plural.


    Sheeps Island? :pac:




    Guessing to be honest - British Virgin islands?


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    #616
    bonzodog2
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    Falklands perhaps?


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    #617
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Falklands perhaps?

    Correct. Well done. I heard an Irish speaking lawyer consistently refer to them as "na Malvinas", while the recognised name in Irish is Oileáin Fhaclainne. ( and to so refer to them at the height of the hostilities.) It's struck me that the Scottish Gaels have a nice, neutral name. Maybe the Gaels of Ireland should copy it.

    Your question, please?


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    #618
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    I owe ye a question.....
    Who is William Michael Albert Broad better known as?


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    #619
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    Robin Hood?


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    #620
    bonzodog2
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    No, much more recent


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    #621
    bonzodog2
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    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    I owe ye a question.....
    Who is William Michael Albert Broad better known as?

    I think thats enough time. Its Billy Idol. Heres another one:

    Whats the original name of the hospital in South Africa where the first heart transplant was performed? Its had its name changed since.


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    #622
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,110 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oooh thats a bit hard Bonzodog, I could tell you who did it! When was it? Mid 60s?


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    #623
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    looksee wrote: »
    Oooh thats a bit hard Bonzodog, I could tell you who did it! When was it? Mid 60s?

    December 1967


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    #624
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    I think thats enough time. Its Billy Idol. Heres another one:

    Whats the original name of the hospital in South Africa where the first heart transplant was performed? Its had its name changed since.

    After a little google, the hospital I'm looking for is still called the same, but theres a new one named after the surgeon. I heard the name on the radio a few months back and thought they had renamed it in his honour.


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    #625
    nompere
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    The spelling is probably wrong, because I don't have the Afrikaans - but it's along the lines of Groot Schuur.

    I recall doing a paper round, and reading about the transplant as I went from house to house. I still also recall the names of Christiaan Barnard and Louis Washkansky.


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    #626
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Well remembered nompere!


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    #627
    nompere
    Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭nompere


    Who wrote fiction featuring characters named Quin and Satterthwaite?


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    #628
    IrishZeus
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    nompere wrote: »
    Who wrote fiction featuring characters named Quin and Satterthwaite?

    Agatha Christie?


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    #629
    nompere
    Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭nompere


    Very good.


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    #630
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    How many syllables make up a Haiku?


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    #631
    New Home
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    17

    Five syllables here
    Seven more syllables there
    Are you happy now?


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