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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Why is France systematically excluded?
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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 23:52:15 GMT
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In article <4uvdkf$7ir@sv8.ictp.trieste.it> singular@oort.ap.sissa.it (Poll Dubh) writes:
 > >Maybe France doesn't even want to sign these treaties, since there's
 > >only one official language anyway (never mind Gaelic, Basque, German
 > >and a smattering of Dutch). 
 > 
 > Gaelic? Breton isn't Gaelic.

Not so harsh.  It is not universally known that Gaelic refers to Scots
(and sometimes Irish).
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