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Published on Wednesday 4 November 2009 08:39

You have a few choice words for Gaelic road signs in the Capital, while TIE works all night in a bid to finish Princes Street

Council chiefs are planning to produce bilingual road signs to promote Gaelic.

Is this April first? If not, the lunatics have just taken over the asylum.

Jennifer Tailya

There are a lot more people who speak Polish, or Chinese, or French, Spanish or Italian in Edinburgh. You probably have more people in Edinburgh who understand Latin than Gaelic. I'm all for protecting native languages where appropriate, but personally I just don't see the need for Gaelic road signs in Edinburgh.

Skip McClendon

We shd put rdsgns in txtspk LOL

Sellotape love to eat I do

The city is just getting weirder and weirder.

Jock MacSprog

I used to drive a lot around the Inverness/Black Isle area in my last job. I actually found it quite confusing and it could be quite dangerous with all the road signs up there in English and Gaelic.

Just another day

Pretentious and stupid. But marginally less idiotic than the you know whats.

black custard

There was, however, some support for the plan.

Great idea. Nonsense that it will make roads unsafe – loads of countries have bilingual signs, eg Ireland. Sounds like they're only talking about four or five and if it's on a "replacement" basis then it's only when the old signs fall apart anyway. What a to-do over nothing!

Doggonedude

Queen Street Station (in Glasgow] has welcome signs in the language too. No harm in that surely.

senza nome

It's not about how many people speak the language in Edinburgh, it's about maintaining and promoting an old Scottish language in the Scottish capital. What's the problem with that?

RabIT

Edinburgh has never been part of a Gaelic heartland as far as I am aware, but it was most definitely spoken in the Capital. The language of the old parliament was Gaelic for starters. I think that it is only fitting that OUR capital city recognises the existence of Gaelic. Likewise I would like to see recognition and support given to Scots, Doric, Orcadian etc.

Gaidhealtachd

Hard to believe there are so many self-hating Scots. I guess it takes 300 years of enforced union to breed such a contempt for your own country's languages, history and culture.

Aesop

As if reclaiming a language wasn't enough, TIE workers are grafting through the night to ensure Princes Street can be handed back to the city at the end of this month.

This should have been happening since the beginning, not now.

malcyh

That's the spirit. All pulling together for the final push.

Foo

Surely the "final push" will be when they actually finish the damn thing! This is a phoney deadline, set up to make it look like TIE have actually met a deadline. And they look like they will struggle to even do that!

Skip McClendon

Has anyone noticed the lack of working going on in Leith, West End and Haymarket while they push all their manpower in the direction of Princes Street? Why is Princes Street so important? Constitution Street has been CLOSED for over a year and a half but I see no 24-hour working to get that finished for the traders there.

trammy tam