THE EFFORTS of Àdhamh O’Broin to preserve our native Argyll Gaelic dialect is to be applauded.
To all intents and purposes, he is an outsider, yet he has taken on the challenge. Often it takes a perspective from elsewhere to appreciate what others who are closer cannot see.
I should offer a little of my own background by way of context. I am from Loch Fyne-side - with ancestry from both sides of the loch too long and complicated to explain.