Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe fields that are no longer there, forests long felled. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. When languages disappear, so does a part of our history and the ways of thinking they represent.
I wrote about it here:
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gaelic-the-language-of-the-land/
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