With a Scottish Slant

A Pot-Pourri of Helpful Stuff:

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THE GAELIC & SCOTS LANGUAGES
	Take an Irish Lesson with Celtic Harpist Dennis Doyle. A Gaelic Homepage is devoted to the three Gaelic languages. Scottish Gaelic learners' materials are shared online with sound. Scottish internet radio provides an index of Gaelic audio. Here are Gaelic sayings to use every day.
	Visit the Scots Independent Newspaper for the Scots language and humour (in addition to the politics).
	Go to An Etymological Dictionary of Gaelic by Alexander MacBain. Here is The School Gaelic Dictionary by Malcolm MacFarlane. Try the Mackinnon Gaelic-English Dictionary.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REFERENCES
	- find meanings of over 3 million acronyms and abbreviations. - learn about the origins of words and phrases. - an attempt to demystify jargon (while misspelling "demystifying"). - a URL for the linguaphile . . . mostly free. - a look at Bartleby's Quotations.
	This is a free and family-friendly set of family resources. This set of MSN online resources includes dictionary, thesaurus and translation. This website provides a living glossary of linguistic terms.
	Straight Dope Classics introduces you to odd questions with answers. Weird, Wild, Wonderful or Worthwhile World Wide Web sites . . . This website provides the SNOPES Urban Legends Reference Pages. Here's another Urban Legends archive. Word Spy introduces and defines new words in current use.

TRANSLATIONS
	- The AltaVista Babel Fish Translation Page. - SDL International "Free2Professional" Translation Service.
	- Enigman's Favourite Latin Sayings. - Bill Casselman's Frivolities,including a Latin Dictionary. - Nuntii Latini: News in Latin produced by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

POT-POURRI
	- Find the cost of gasoline on trips in North America. - Check of cheapest price of gas in major Ontario cities.
	- CBC Newsworld Online.
	- BBC Scotland Online.
	- Music In Scotland.
	- Scottish Music.
	- It's About Haggis an' aw' that.
	- Toasts for Every Occasion.

SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
	- NASA JPL page for astronomy. - Try the GOOGLE search engine for other topics.
	- My page for Ordovician Fossils of Ontario.
	- The Weather Network (Canada). - Environment Canada (English/French). - Canadian Weather Radar. - Meteorological Office - UK. - Space Weather, eh?
	- Southern Ontario Seismology Network. - UK Seismology Studies.
	- It's a question of time. - Then there's the millennium. - TLE Earth-Imaging. - The Time Zones.
	- IFP Conversion of Units with correct spelling in both English and French. - Nova's Units of Measure. Excuse the spelling of the International Units!

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