Can't help with admissions itthues--not my job, guv-- but on the subject of authenticity, try this: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1335612007 In the comments you'll find "drongoes"--new to me, apparently of Australian origin and reinforced by the punk rock band, "legendary" from the "golden era of chaos punk"--and "It's all a bit wee drum haw to most folk," which I believe is an onomatopoeic reference to the rhythmic and repetitive nature of gaelic singing. I am reminded of my mother's accounts of ceilidghs of her youth in which, she said, miseries of the past were not transformed by art; they were re-enacted in five hundred or so verses. David Ritchie learning every day in Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html