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Very strange to see it signed off with Sláinte. I never thought it used much outside of Scotland



The dead giveaway that you're looking at Irish and not Scottish Gaelic is the accent direction: Irish uses acute accents exclusively, whereas Scottish Gaelic uses grave accents exclusively in its standard orthography (though older variants, and some holdouts still use both acute and grave accents).


Thanks, good to learn the difference. Graves are a pain on UK keyboards though, I propose they switch!


There are complicated reasons why that's unlikely to happen, which go back to why some people still use both grave and acute accents Scottish Gaelic (vowel quality, essentially) and why standardising on the grave accent was a more natural choice for SG.

It's not a huge deal so long as you use an appropriate keyboard map.


It's very common in Ireland.


Movidus is an Irish company not Scottish.




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