Soul and body, sound and hearty: getting to know ...
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| Title | Soul and body, sound and hearty: getting to know Bishop MacEachern |
| Author(s) | G. MacDonald, I. MacPherson |
| Journal | Island Magazine |
| Date | 2007 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | |
| Start page | 14 |
| End page | 18 |
| Abstract | The examination of a letter written by first Roman Catholic bishop of Prince Edward Island, the Scottish Highlander Angus Bernard MacEachern, written in 1832 to a former parishoner Angus Walker in which the bishop engages in clever code switching from English to Scottish Gaelic and back in order to deliver a message which could only be understood, if intercepted, by another bilingual Scottish Gaelic/English speaker. The paper reveals the historical setting of the 1832 letter and goes on to examine closely the passages of Scottish Gaelic: their meaning in terms of social commentary, their non-standard orthography which provide clues to mainland Scottish dialect variants evidenced by the same, and the descriptions of parishoners encrypted in the author's first language. |
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