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Oh sure, that much I knew.

Once I was talking with a tour guide in Ireland, and I mentioned that I hadn't known that Gaelic was still spoken to such a great extent there; I thought it was a dying language, like Yiddish.

To my surprise, he had no idea what Yiddish was, although when I mentioned that it included words like "schmuck," that he was familiar with.

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