> > [This message is converted from WPS-PLUS to ASCII] > > When I was on my narrowboat on the canal at Christmas (what did *you* = do at > Christmas ? I was icebreaking !) I saw a boat with the name "Traa dy = looar"; > instantly transposing myself into "pass it across your language matrix"= mode I > equated the name to "While your moon" (Tra dy loer) in some weird Corni= sh/Manx > incarnation of Celtic. I asked the woman whose boat it was what the = name meant > and she said it meant "Time enough" (i.e. "There's no hurry") in what = she said > was "Gaelic". > > Which Gaelic is it ? The spelling looks a bit Manx (?) > > <<< End of message >>> My wife (Carol), who grew up on the Isle of Man, says that it is, indeed,= Manx, and that it means "Man~ana", but without the sense of desperate = urgency. By the way, does anyone feel the same way about Manx spelling as I do. = Manx spelling is what you get when you let the English loose on your lang= uage! And (pace Leperlier) this message is in English because the original had = nothing to do with Welsh per se. --------------------------------------------------- John Sullivan Ffo+n (+44) 01932 567311 Prif-raglennwr Ffacs (+44) 01932 568145 SimCorp Cyf Post malwenol: gofynnwch ---------------------------------------------------