[Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

[William Anderson]

J.R. Seago wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 23:51, Chris Nicolson <chris at c-nic.org> wrote:
>> Scottish Gaelic Total speakers: 58,652
>> Welsh Total speakers: 700,000
>>
>> From their respective wikipedia pages. So we're doing well for the
>> relative number of speakers!
> 
> That makes matters even worse! Welsh is spoken by 2,903,085/700,000 one in 
> four+of the population of Wales, Gaelic by 5,062,011/58,652 one in 86 > 87 
> of the population of Scotland, even if one discounts the proportion of 
> Scotland where Gaelic was not spoken, then the sum of money per head being 
> spent to preserve a European language/culture, (which was what I understood 
> the EU to be seeking to do), should at least be greater for Scotland.

I don't understand this argument.  A 1:4 Welsh:English speaking ratio
surely deserves more attention than a 1:86 Scots Gaelic:English ratio?
At a per-head rate, the WLB gets ~ £19, given the figures you and others
have quoted (£13.7m/0.7m people).  The GLB gets ~ £75 (4.409m/0.058m)
per head!  Where's the problem here?

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