Two Gaels

[grey_green_acorn]

Most online dictionary look-ups seem to show ‘Gael’ as meaning ‘Highlander’.

Tim

[leigh kitchen]

In which case all of the Highland regiments would be "Gaels", not just the A &SH?

[mike_vee]

Argyle in modern Gaelic is "Earra-Ghàidheal" from Old Gaelic "airer Goídel" (border region of the Gaels).

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[Jim Maclean]

My father was in the Argylls in WW2. Never heard him use the term.

[dubaiguy]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

Presumably "Argylls" spoken with a Scottish accent?

As big Sonia probably once said:

‘Ah da ken aboot yoose, but they gyll pipers mak een halley racket, fit tae wik the deid’.

[leigh kitchen]

Sounds like a lass that'd appreciate one of Billy Connolly's Glasgow cocktails - "Gie us a bucket o' diesel wi' a brolly in it".

[grenadierguardsman]

Originally Posted by cbuehler

Yes, Gaels. Way back in the '70s I used to be in a Pipe Band based in Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie Canada. There were no less than four members who had served in the British Black Watch and several others who had served in other Scottish regiments which I now no longer recall. They all referred to the Argylls as the Gaels. Perhaps a nickname now lost in time.

CB

Thanks CB.
Andy