(Hint: The numbers "1" and "2" (marked in red) do not represent letters or other numbers but should be left as "1" and "2". Each of the numbers occurs twice.)

JOI YMBFX SNQJY MA JOI SQIYIZJ BNZX NSSINQ FZ UIZIQNB, JM ONPI LIIZ HMGSMYIX MA JOI SQMXKHJFMZY MA JOI YIN, NZX MA MJOIQ GNJIQFNBY YFGFBNQ JM JOMYI ZMC AMKZX KSMZ JOI YOMQIY. OIZHI CI AFZX QINYMZ JM HMZHBKXI:

1YJ, JONJ JOI BNZX MZ COFHO CI QIYJ FY ZMJ YFGSBI NZX MQFUFZNB, LKJ JONJ FJ FY N HMGSMYFJFMZ, NZX ONX LIIZ AMQGIX LR JOI MSIQNJFMZ MA YIHMZX HNKYIY.

2ZX, JONJ LIAMQI JOI SQIYIZJ BNZX CNY GNXI, JOIQI ONX YKLYFYJIX N CMQBX HMGSMYIX MA YIN NZX BNZX, FZ COFHO CIQI JFXIY NZX HKQQIZJY, CFJO YKHO MSIQNJFMZY NJ JOI LMJJMG MA JOI YIN NY ZMC JNEI SBNHI. NZX, BNYJBR, JONJ COFBI JOI SQIYIZJ BNZX CNY AMQGFZU NJ JOI LMJJMG MA JOI MHINZ, JOI AMQGIQ BNZX GNFZJNFZIX SBNZJY NZX NZFGNBY; NJ BINYJ JOI YIN CNY JONZ FZONLFJIX LR NZFGNBY, FZ N YFGFBNQ GNZZIQ NY FJ FY NJ SQIYIZJ. OIZHI CI NQI BIX JM HMZHBKXI, JONJ JOI UQINJIQ SNQJ MA MKQ BNZX, FA ZMJ JOI COMBI ONX LIIZ SQMXKHIX LR MSIQNJFMZY ZNJKQNB JM JOFY UBMLI; LKJ JONJ FZ MQXIQ JM GNEI JOFY BNZX N SIQGNZIZJ LMXR, QIYFYJFZU JOI MSIQNJFMZY MA JOI CNJIQY, JCM JOFZUY ONX LIIZ QIVKFQIX;

1YJ, JOI HMZYMBFXNJFMZ MA GNYYIY AMQGIX LR HMBBIHJFMZY MA BMMYI MQ FZHMOIQIZJ GNJIQFNBY;

2ZXBR, JOI IBIPNJFMZ MA JOMYI HMZYMBFXNJIX GNYYIY AQMG JOI LMJJMG MA JOI YIN, JOI SBNHI COIQI JOIR CIQI HMBBIHJIX, JM JOI YJNJFMZY FZ COFHO JOIR ZMC QIGNFZ NLMPI JOI BIPIB MA JOI MHINZ. DNGIY OKJJMZ

HMZHIQZFZU JOI YRYJIG MA JOI INQJO, FJY XKQNJFMZ NZX YJNLFBFJR

C GCTQNJRTVRFAVZB DQUZFATVZU GTZT TVAVRTVRFT AT A BUGCIZC HAC GTZT WAHN-NQTVT - DQU TGNNQUV UAVJZU VJAC DQU RWWGHRCAVRQC.

ACBUZY WACM

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

QUIZ

This month's quiz asks you to identify some Scottish places that have Gaelic based names, although they are most generally referred to by their anglicized versions. Lately though, Gaelic has been appearing on train stations and sign posts.

see if you can connect the Gaelic to the anglicized forms.

Each question below gives the name of a Scottish town in Gaelic. By what name is it more commonly known in English. (Hint: The English is a "stab" at the Gaelic pronunciation).

2. Dun Breatann

3. Baile Chloichridh

4. Ceann a' Ghiuthsaich

5. Dail Righ

ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH'S QUIZ

In which words does the word "Scotch" or "Scot" refer to something about Scotland? If it doesn't what is the origin of the form?

Scot Free
Yes_____ No_X_____
Meaning:
Sceot is an old English word for a tax. A municipal tax was "scot and lot". If you managed to avoid paying it you got off scot-free, inhence, to get away without having to pay a forfeit.


Hopscotch

Yes_____ No_X_____
Meaning
The "scotch" here refers to the same one in "butterscotch" but here the reference is to the marks cut in the dirt to mark the boxes in which one "hopped"


Scotch Tape

Yes__X_____ No_____
Meaning
A rather derogatory term implying cheapness. Someone complained there wasn't enough glue on the tape and they should , "take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it" Yuck- Icky.


Scotch Verdict

Yes_X_____ No_____
Meaning
Out of Scotland the term refers to Scottish criminal codes which allow three findings buy juries - Guilty, Not Guilty and Not Proven. The difference between the two acquittals (not guilty and not proven) is that not proven indicates the jury is not convinced of the accused person's innocence, but feels the case hasn't quite been made to convict. It is sometimes called "The not guilty, but don't do it again" decision!

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