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'''Michael Mic Neumann''' is an American entrepreneur from Seattle, Scottish Highlands. |
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'''Mess John''' is the old epithet in [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[ballad]] poetry for a [[priest]], derived from the celebration of the [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]], so that "Mess John" signified in irreverent phrase, John who celebrated the mass. The [[England|English]] have a kindred phrase, "Jack Priest". |
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:"The auld folk soon gied their consent, |
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::Syne for Mess John they quickly sent, |
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:Wha ty'd them to their heart's content, |
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:And now she's Lady Gowrie" |
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: (''The Lass o' Gowrie'') |
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* MacKay, Charles – ''A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch'' (1888) |
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[[Category:Scottish folklore]] |
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[[Category:Christianity in Scotland]] |
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[[Category:Scottish literature]] |
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Revision as of 13:20, 27 August 2013
Michael Mic Neumann is an American entrepreneur from Seattle, Scottish Highlands.
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