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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:


The Irish - Catholic connection is interesting. As a child I met numerous
children brought up as Catholics who refered to the letter "h" as haitch but
those who were brought up protestants said aitch. I later learned that this
is not a peculiarity of religion at all (in my region at least) but that it
came from many of the teachers in the Catholic private education system
being of Irish origin whereas the non-catholics mostly went to public
schools where the teachers were not Irish. I don't recall them saying 'erb
though but we didn't discuss herbs much.

In the way of kids the cafliks yelled insults (and sometimes rocks) at the
prodes over the fence and vic-versa. On one memorable occasion some of the
older boys were lined up for a scuffle and each declared "I'm Catholic" or
"I'm Church of England" as the case might be. The battle lines were drawn
and they turned to me and I said quaking

"I'm Kindergarten" and so was
excused the ensuing melee.

David

Smart at a young age.

Not to worry it is just the battle of Culloden being replayed.

http://www.amazon.com/Culloden-John-...ref=sr_1_1?ie=
UTF8&s=books&qid=1234048371&sr=1-1

Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA