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Newly minted coins                        In discussing Sorley MacLean, John MacInnes writes   2
                        1
            sand-blasted glass , 2011, A6, edition of 2  ‘MacGill-Eain uses the Gaelic lexicon in such a way that
                                                      literary Gaelic will never be the same again. The context of
                                                      his poetry gives the common currency of Gaelic, as well as
                                                      the antique and unusual words, the quality of newly-minted
                                                      coins’.

                                                      1  The glass itself is English Muffle by type
                                                      2  Dùthchas Nan Gàidheal: Selected Essays of John MacInnes, p406




































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