Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!news.yamada.gr.jp!passion.nalgo.co.jp!news.moat.net!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.china,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why do chinks hate japs and not brits? Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:22:11 +0900 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31a4gmF38479mU1@individual.net> References: <30agdjF2tf97qU1@uni-berlin.de> <41a10b89.15140851@news> <30hdpiF301o97U1@uni-berlin.de> <30ppt3F34speoU1@uni-berlin.de> <30sahgF31o15rU1@uni-berlin.de> <18ejq0hij0mj06inm3agl4rlcsvtu6eikp@4ax.com> <41af3587.1229307@news> <41af6fc3.952780@news> <41afadb3.2277084@news> Reply-To: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net cNeMzxEIbA54thMqsTfQ4Q5juQY99nbBRkmT9u5ZfpuSaeMWTu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:22988 Michi something (my computer's configuration won't read the last part of the name) wrote: > [MacHamish's] surname's Irish What an odd thing to say. MacHamish is about as Scottish as it gets (check any information on the Gunn clan, e.g., http://www.yourscottishname.com/gunn_clan.htm, or http://www.geocities.com/sconemac/septgunn.html). Have you never heard of MacHamish Scotch whiskey (http://www.geocities.com/jordan_m30/malts.html)? From what I can gather, the name exists in Ireland mainly in the north. Without (admittedly) knowing much about it, I'd assume it was brought there by Scottish Protestants. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com