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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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Whispering Isles
noun plural,
the Western Isles:
Gaels from the Whispering Isles (the Western Isles didn’t have many inhabitants....)
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etymology:
possibly so called because of the accent and language of the people; attested by
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