Stamps In Gaelic Or Scots?

I studied Gaelic at Cape Breton University and with Hogmanay (what my paternal family calls "New Years") and Auld Lang Syne playing all across Canada I was wondering who here has Gaelic/Scots stamps?

Manx Christmas stamps exist but I can't find any in Scots or Scottish Gaelic.

If you have them post them.

Tapa Leit (Thank you).

I have this one:



Does it count?

Nice to see this:

Does it ever! One of the few things my Scottish war bride grandmother brought over to New Brunswick was a book of Robert Burns poems.

When all the men folk went off to fight the Nazis she actually got a job working at the post office.

Was that part of a Robert Burns set? I think you stamp guys call them maxi's?

If you are interested that line is from a poem called "Tae a Moose" "To a Mouse".
Tae means to. My aunt has a sugar dish that says "Help yerself tae the sugar.

I may have found the first non-Canadian/British Colony I will buy.

Here is the full set of Burns stamps from 1996, celebrating his death centenary. He wrote in Scots, rather than Gaelic.

http://www.scotiana.com/wp-content/...l-stamps.jpg

Hi to all

It is a common mis-conception, that Rabbie Burns wrote "Old Lang Syne"
What Burns actually did was to write a couple of more verses to the song.
This is born out by a copy of a letter that he sent to one of my Paternal Grandmothers. The copy of the letter is in the Burns Museum in Ayrshire in Scotland.
Partly he says to Bessie Dunlop, who he was having an affair with, and she was the wife of the Provost, what we would call a lord Mayor.
He says that he had taken the old song, and written a few new verses, and re-arranged the order of the song.
Regards
Horamakhet

Looking through my own stuff, I came across these postmarks. I'm not aware of any Gaelic stamps as yet.







Unlike Welsh, the Scottish Gaelic language has no official status... only "equal respect with English". Issued in 1979 this postmark was a philatelic first when the Post Office authorised the franking of all outgoing mail from Stornoway for a month during mod nan eilean 1979.
Neo choltach ri Cuimrig chan eil status oifigeach aig Gaidhlig ann am Breatunn ged a tha iomadh buidheann ga cleachdadh, leithid Oifig a Phuist bithidh Gaidhlig agus Beurla airson a cheud uair riamh air litrichean agus eile a falbh a Steornabhagh eadar an 17mh de'n t-Sultuinn agus an 12mh de'n Damhair.

HoramKhet, that is called a "factoid". In the same a humanoid looks like a human a factoid looks like a fact. Next time some one mentions Robert Burns or Auld Lang Syne I will remember that and bring it up.

Scotzm, with only 2 years of Gaelic under my belt and about 2 years of never using it I fear I forgot a good deal of it. Have you ever been to a mod of the Isle of Sky by anychance? WHen I go back to Uni I hope to visit. Great little collection!

Ciamar a tha thu?

Sadly, I can't think of any GB stamps with Gaelic but quite a few of the Scottish air letters (aerogrammes) have had at the top left "Troimh'n phost-adhair / Litir adhair" as well as "By airmail - Air letter" and "Par avion - Aerogramme".

I'm afraid my great-grandparents were the last in my family to speak Gaelic but I remember well my great aunt telling me stories about them.

She said my great grandfather would shock his wife by the language he used when their goat got up on to the roof of the cottage!

Happy New Year! / Bliadhna Mhath Ùr / Lang may yer lum reek!

My Gaelic teacher always insisted we used ciamar tha sibh, haha.

Tha mi gle mhath, ciamar tha sibh payne (I am fine, how are you).

We better be careful guys, this is an English forum.

I wish my Gaelic was fluent and not so broken.