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HelpRe: Caitlin is used as a name, then?
in reply to a message by Eliora
Oh yeah, it's extremely popular here. It was top 10 for most of the 90s as far as I know. Were you thinking of Cailin?
Edited to add: If you were thinking of Cailin which means 'girl' ... Even Colleen is occasionally used in Scotland. It's not popular, but Scots wouldn't know what it meant in vocab Irish, so there's no barrier to using it. Only a tiny proportion of Scots (about 1 in 100) know Scottish Gaelic, let alone Irish Gaelic :-)
Edited to add: If you were thinking of Cailin which means 'girl' ... Even Colleen is occasionally used in Scotland. It's not popular, but Scots wouldn't know what it meant in vocab Irish, so there's no barrier to using it. Only a tiny proportion of Scots (about 1 in 100) know Scottish Gaelic, let alone Irish Gaelic :-)
This message was edited 3/4/2007, 1:12 PM
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