The strategy has proved controversial as it is designed to deliver a result that would not represent public opinion, with support for independence and the union evenly split. Even “ dualchas teaghlaich” sounds a bit odd however, because it’s redundant. Ironically, the word dualchas alone would have sufficed to convey the meaning he wanted. However, several polls have put Alba on around three per cent support, and one survey put it at just one per cent. Such a result would prove a major humiliation for Mr Salmond who dominated Scottish politics for years and was once a hero for many independence supporters. There has also been very good news on the recruitment front. When the band started, many pipers from competition bands across Scotland said they would love to join but felt they were unable to do so because they were already members of competition bands and couldn’t be members of any other band.

You’re not Scottish unless you are from Scotland. If your great grandwhatever immigrated to the states and you were born and raised in the US, then you should be saying you are of Scottish descent. Please learn this. It comes across as quite ignorant when you claim a nationality that (most of) you have had little or nothing to do with. It’s not correct to say you’re Scottish when you’re of Scottish descent or Scottish heritage. (And even that claim is debatable thanks to DNA.) He was cleared of all charges in a sex assault trial last year, but has regularly faced difficult questions about inappropriate conduct towards women while he was First Minister. Earlier this week, Mr Salmond wrote to the SNP’s 45-strong parliamentary group outlining the proposal, passed by Alba's members at their recent party conference. Ok, I admit…. I am a word nerd. I love them. Maybe it’s a fetish of sorts The older or more obscure language the better…Another commenter pointed out that in the dictionary where the tattoo bearer looked it up, drugáil was defined as a transitive verb, in the sense of “to drug (someone).” More precisely, it is a verbal noun which means “drugging.” Additionally, apostrophes are not used as substitutes for accent marks in Irish or Gaelic (or in French or Spanish for that matter). Thanks for your comment! As explained in the last paragraph of the post above, I can’t do Scottish Gaelic tattoo translations. There is also a second post that explains what to do if you have your heart set on a Gaelic tattoo despite the pitfalls. Asked whether he agreed with Sturgeon’s suggestion that Salmond still had questions to answer regarding his personal conduct, MacAskill said: “No. We’ve had two court cases – he has been successful in both a civil and indeed a criminal court action. That is behind us, we go forward.” Despite having a 3 per cent approval rating in the regional elections, according to Politico's Poll of Polls, a small win could still have political implications for the SNP. A proliferation of bad Gaelic tattoos also weakens the language. How? Every bad bit of Gaelic that is put out there becomes an exemplar that other people may follow. It propagates mistakes (Soar Alba!), spreads ignorance, and makes the language more and more like a bad copy of English, and less and less like Gaelic. Change happens to every language whether people like it or not, but when the direction of change is taking it into convergence with a juggernaut like English, that’s called language death.

MacAskill, a former Holyrood justice secretary, announced his defection on Saturday, meaning the Alba party now has more MPs than Scottish Labour. Asked by Sophy Ridge on Sky News if such moves indicated nationalist infighting, he denied this, saying: “This is about delivering that independence super-majority. The independence movement is a broad church, it encompasses more than one political party. He has also appeared uncomfortable when asked about his relationship with Kremlin-funded Russian propaganda station RT, which broadcasts his weekly chat show. Mr Salmond has refused to say whether he believes the Russian state was responsible for the Salisbury poisonings. Here’s the thing: you will have no way of knowing whether you’ve been given a decent translation or not. That’s a major risk to the integrity of your body art. At a stroke, the entire dynamic of the election will change. The focus will no longer be on how many SNP seats will be lost to Labour, but how many of the ten remaining unionist seats will be lost to the Scotland United coalition. This blog focuses mainly on Scottish Gaelic, and not on Irish. For a bit of insight on how those languages are different, see my blog post https://gaelic.co/what-is-gaelic, or Chapter 2 of The Scottish Gaelic Tattoo Handbook.The Irish form used for “Peggy” is “Peigí” (“Peig” would actually be more usual, but you will hear the former as well). “Peghai” is very, very wrong. For one thing, it violates an important Irish spelling convention. For another, “gh” in the middle of a word in Irish is usually pronounced as if it were a “y” (and “gh” can never be pronounced as a hard “g”). My guess is that “Peghai” was something put together by someone who didn’t actually speak Irish, but who wanted something that looked Irish to them (these people are very fond of “gh” for some reason). Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse. I can offer you a couple of freebies, Peggy, but I would like you to get them confirmed at the Irish Language Forum (www.irishlanguageforum.com), because the first rule of translation seeking is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS GET THREE FLUENT PEOPLE IN AGREEMENT BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH ANYTHING PERMANENT. I just wanted to stop and say how much I appreciate what you are doing and how surprised I was that you still take the time to respond to comments posted years after the original article. The phrase is parallel to the Irish Éirinn go Brách ('Ireland Forever'), Welsh language slogan Cymru am byth ('Wales forever'), the Breton Breizh da viken ('Brittany forever') or the Cornish language Kernow bys vyken ('Cornwall forever').

I also beileve the above are masculine. Is there a varation for Stephan/Stephani both M/F ? I saw Stiana which is aparantly a very old and rare Irish way to spell Stephan/Stephani both masculine and feminine, but can’t confirm the authenticity of the information. When confronted with this information by blog commenters, the tattoo bearer insisted that her trusted friends who were raised Irish-speaking in Ireland had given her this translation. She said: “Fine; whatever. The people that I know say that I’m right; the Irish Gaelic-English dictionary says that I’m right. But, go ahead guys. Tell me that my tattoo is wrong. It doesn’t matter. I’m happy with it.” She stated that she had also looked up “drug” in an English-Irish dictionary and found the word drugáil, and that the apostrophe was supposed to represent the fada (or srac in Scottish Gaelic) over the á. There are eight electoral regions in Scotland, and parties generally need around six per cent of second votes in a region to secure an MSP.However, just days before the deadline for registering candidates, Mr Salmond, the former SNP leader who led the Yes campaign in the 2014 independence referendum, announced that he would lead Alba into the Scottish elections and seek to return to Holyrood. Frustration, sarcasm, or anger at yet. Another. Tattoo. Request. Fortunately for you, most fluent Gaelic-English bilingual people are actually pretty nice about tattoo requests, even when they are frustrated. Probably 99% of them won’t lead you astray by giving you fake translations that are actually declarations about the size of your genitals… but some may fantasize about doing so. Are you willing to take that risk? Especially if you plan to share photos of your tattoo online?

Instead get mma sparring gloves. You’re not throwing hard punches anyway. You can use Vaseline to help as well (I typically don’t) Now, how do you think you’re going to get a translation on the internet? Online translating services don’t do Scottish Gaelic (yet).This is what happens when you’re dealing with a “lesser-used” language. There just aren’t that many of us Gaelic speakers around, and so large companies tend not to cater to us with goods and services. But even when online translating services do offer Scottish Gaelic, beware. Google Translate made a hash of Irish, and online translators generally don’t work that well. A few polls suggest that Alba will meet this threshold, but most do not. The most optimistic, realistic scenario for the party is that it would return one MSP in each region, translating to a small but potentially influential bloc at Holyrood, particularly if the SNP does not win an outright majority. I am Scottish and also have Irish linage down the gene pool so both spellings are acceptable to me.

What’s the big deal, though? You only want a tattoo. It will only take a total stranger, like, a few minutes to translate “One Ring to Rule Them All” into Gaelic for you. And Gaelic is SO COOL. The sensational development was by far the most dramatic of the Scottish election campaign so far, with Mr Salmond and his former protégé Ms Sturgeon having been engaged in a bitter feud for nearly three years about the Scottish Government’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against him, which he strenuously denies. In a word - independence. Mr Salmond is hoping to win support from hardcore independence supporters who believe Ms Sturgeon has been too cautious in her plan to break up of the UK. Despite twice announcing plans for a new referendum in the last parliament, both attempts failed after the UK Government refused to cooperate, leading some independence supporters to question Ms Sturgeon's ability to achieve her party's founding aim. Alba has made overtly emotional and nationalist pitches to Scots - even claiming the support of Robert the Bruce in a campaign video. So you want to get a tattoo — in Scottish Gaelic. You want to honour a family member, or your Scottish heritage, or you just think the Gaelic language is cool, but you don’t speak Gaelic yourself. What should you do?