User talk:MacRusgail

I have enjoyed some of my time on this website, but it is not a good use of my time. I am spending the summer creating literature, rather than wasting my time with the hidebound.

Tapadh leibh a chairdean - thank you friends.

As for my non-friends, and the nuisance makers (you know who you are) - "Dy jig Skeab Lome ort hene, er dty hiollagh, er dty hlaynt, er dty chooid as er dty chloan!"

Speedy deletion nomination of Sweere-arse

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@Jbhunley: Good for you, but you are mistaken as usual. The text of the entry is taken from Charles MacKay's A Dictionary of Lowland Scots (1888), which had been out of copyright for a very long time. And listed very clearly in the reference section of the article. Not cut and paste from the DSL website - next time, I recommend taking more time to read each article you propose to get rid of. (I believe that 1888 is roughly a century before the first website was set up.)

For your information -

https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryoflowl00mackrich/dictionaryoflowl00mackrich_djvu.txt

I actually typed the entry up manually from hard copy. Furthermore, MacKay refers to a third work, Jamieson's Dictionary, which pre-dates the invention of the internet by a century and several decades.

Maybe you need to be a little less hasty in your deletionism, but I think we both know your real reason for doing this.-MacRùsgail (talk) 15:14, 31 August 2015 (UTC)