I've been wearing a kilt on and off for the better part of 5 years now and like many of you have heard most of the standard comments, compliments, jibes, and jokes. Ive learned a few good come-backs and tend not to let any of it get under my skin. There is, however, one particular situation that tends to leave me bereft of a response... and that's being spoken to in gaelic... usually by an older Scot.

This has happened 7 or 8 times now and the last time (this past weekend), I wasn't even wearing a kilt! I'm thinking that it would perhaps be a nice gesture to learn a couple of light generic phrases so as to be able to respond in kind. I'm a guy who understands english (mostly) and a bit of high school french. I did manage to stumble my way through a couple of Italian phrases at my daughters wedding. But I don't particularly have a bent for languages and I think it's a bit late in the game to get into studying this one.

From time to time, I see a few gaelic phrases being tossed around the board in posts and sigs. I have to assume there are at least a few Xmarks members who speak it or are familiar with it. I guess I'm trying to determine how best to approach this. Proper pronunciation would obviously be a challenge. Berlitz comes to mind but I think that costs about the same as traditional heavyweight. Any suggestions from the Xmarks gaelic contingent??... I'm stumped! ??:

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