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    Scots Gaelic help (again)

    It is sure tough venturing into a language one doesn't speak! I took Gaelic in college but that was a long time ago!

    Looking for how to say the name of our band, the Long Beach Fire Department Pipe Band.

    I see that the term used in the Highlands for what we call a Fire Department is Seirbheisean Smalaidh (literally "Extinguishing Service"), formerly Fire Brigade, which I suspect might be Bragad Smalaidh.

    Evidently the term "Fire Department" isn't used in the Highlands. But what would it be? Roinn Smalaidh? Roinn na Smalaidh? Roinn an Smalaidh? The na/an thing is fuzzy for me.

    I would guess that "Long Beach" would be Traigh Fada (or would it be Traigh Fhada?) due to the local beaches being sandy.

    I've seen that they don't use a term like "pipe band" but simply use piobairean (pipers).

    So something like Piobairean Roinn Smalaidh Traigh Fhada??

    Thanks! Richard
    Last edited by OC Richard; 20th September 13 at 05:46 PM.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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