Louise Bremner wrote:

> Jim Smith <jsmith729@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Declan Murphy wrote:>
>>
>>>And what does it mean? A local who doesn't look "local" or a gaigin
>>>who doesn't "look" suitably gaikokurandish?
>>
>>What's a 'gaigin'
>>
>>Is that like Bank of America or Wells Fargo? 

Similar birds but different feathers.

> Watch out for the low-lying shibboleths--they can trip up the unwary....

I sometimes despair for the world, but what would the world be if 42,000 
were thus detected, and without reprieve, adjudged to death, for want of
well-pronouncing gaigin.


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"Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The 
other ten percent I'll probably waste." - Tug McGraw