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Kevin
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My name's Kevin and I live in the U.S. but I've got some Scottish ancestry. Hoping to make a trip someday. Anyways, politics and economics are my main interests so hopefully we'll have some good discussions.
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Hi Kevin, welcome to the forums.
If you are interested in politics and economics, then there is certainly plenty to talk about here!
Hope you enjoy it.
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Hi Kevin, welcome to the forums. 
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Stevie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Kevin, glad you're here.
Speak to you soon.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the warm welcomes. 
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Stevie
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Kevin, never asked you about your Scottish ancestry.
What Scottish blood have you laddie?
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Stevie wrote: | Kevin, never asked you about your Scottish ancestry.
What Scottish blood have you laddie? |
Good question, but I've not researched it enough yet. My last name is McKenzie and I know that it's Scottish. I don't know of any of my ancestors, where they might have been from in Scotland, or when they left, but I intend on starting the research when my college semester is winding down in December.
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Stevie
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As Sitting Bull said, "If you've got one drop, you're full".
Quite the man, Sitting Bull.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| where are you from in the states my good man? |
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Stevie wrote: | As Sitting Bull said, "If you've got one drop, you're full".
Quite the man, Sitting Bull. |
Well there are other influences in there as well, but Scottish is the most prominent. According to my family at any rate, and the last name certainly lends credence to that.
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Stevie
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I myself am a mix of everything on this side of Europe.
Actually, I humbly beg to differ with Chief sitting Bull in that one of the greatest 'Scots' in my view was Sir Christopher Seaton who with 'I'll mak sicar' went into*Greyfriars and finished off the ignoble Red Comyn, allowing Robert Bruce to be crowned King of Scots and wage the wars of independence (as seen on Braveheart), eventually freeing Scotland from the invading King Edward's rule.
He didn't have a drop of Scottish blood but was married to Bruce's sister.
Alba gu brąth.
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Kevin
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I know Alba is Scotland but that's as far as I know of Gaelic.
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Stevie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Just for info :
it's pronounced, 'alapa'
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Kevin
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| Stevie wrote: | Just for info :
it's pronounced, 'alapa' |
Didn't know that either. 
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Stevie
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Actually, most people in Scotland don't know that either.
Gaelic might be making a revival though.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Stevie wrote: | Actually, most people in Scotland don't know that either.
Gaelic might be making a revival though. |
I'd like to learn Gaelic one day, though there'd be no real benefit to doing so here in the states. I think it'd be interesting, however. I only speak English but am learning Spanish right now.
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Stevie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'd like to learn gaelic too. I'm speaking to some of the guys on the site.
Bit busy at the moment but from summer next year I'll have much more time.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Stevie wrote: | I'd like to learn gaelic too. I'm speaking to some of the guys on the site.
Bit busy at the moment but from summer next year I'll have much more time. |
Well you're far ahead of me lol.
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Stevie
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I'd like to learn Gaelic one day, though there'd be no real benefit to doing so here in the states. I think it'd be interesting, however. I only speak English but am learning Spanish right now. |
I think learning a foreign language gives one a far clearer view of one's own grammar and thinking processes.
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| Stevie wrote: | | one of the greatest 'Scots' in my view was Sir Christopher Seaton who with 'I'll mak sicar' went into*Greyfriars and finished off the ignoble Red Comyn, allowing Robert Bruce to be crowned King of Scots and wage the wars of independence..........He didn't have a drop of Scottish blood |
Robert Bruce himself was the second biggest landowner in all of England. The only person who owned more of England than Robert Bruce was King Edward himself. Which is one reason why, until that business about makkin sicar, Bruce kept switching sides. The population of Scotland, at any given time in history, includes significant numbers of folk who are relatively new to the country. It can be interesting to research ancestors and all that stuff, but, for practical purposes, what matters is what we do in the here and now. |
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