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16th March 16, 11:01 PM
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Interesting story. Whilst everyone you met spoke Gaelic I very much doubt that they didn't speak English, just that you didn't hear them do so. So far as I know from the 1950s, probably earlier, the Scottish education system ensured that everyone who was a native Gaelic speaker as their first language learnt English at school. Having travelled widely around the islands in the 1970s and 80s I never met anyone that couldn't speak English.
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