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Icecube wrote:'Travelling people' would seem to be the politically correct name being rammed down our collective throats nowadays by the usual lot who are trying to dictate the way we speak. My parents called them 'tinkers' and I still refer to them as tinkers. Its a historical Scottish name.
Most of the Scottish tinker fraternity don't travel much at all these days, preferring to remain in a static base - have a look along the railway line in the Carntyne area .
England is plagued by real travellers, overwhelmingly tinkers from Ireland.
Icecube wrote:'Travelling people' would seem to be the politically correct name being rammed down our collective throats nowadays by the usual lot who are trying to dictate the way we speak. My parents called them 'tinkers' and I still refer to them as tinkers. Its a historical Scottish name.
Most of the Scottish tinker fraternity don't travel much at all these days, preferring to remain in a static base - have a look along the railway line in the Carntyne area .
England is plagued by real travellers, overwhelmingly tinkers from Ireland.
shuffle wrote:Icecube wrote:'Travelling people' would seem to be the politically correct name being rammed down our collective throats nowadays by the usual lot who are trying to dictate the way we speak. My parents called them 'tinkers' and I still refer to them as tinkers. Its a historical Scottish name.
Most of the Scottish tinker fraternity don't travel much at all these days, preferring to remain in a static base - have a look along the railway line in the Carntyne area .
England is plagued by real travellers, overwhelmingly tinkers from Ireland.
It's political correctness gone mad.
purplepantman wrote:I predict that this entire thread will be deleted around 3.30am
Dexter St. Clair wrote:I hopeso.
purplepantman wrote:shuffle wrote:Icecube wrote:'Travelling people' would seem to be the politically correct name being rammed down our collective throats nowadays by the usual lot who are trying to dictate the way we speak. My parents called them 'tinkers' and I still refer to them as tinkers. Its a historical Scottish name.
Most of the Scottish tinker fraternity don't travel much at all these days, preferring to remain in a static base - have a look along the railway line in the Carntyne area .
England is plagued by real travellers, overwhelmingly tinkers from Ireland.
It's political correctness gone mad.
I predict that this entire thread will be deleted around 3.30am
shuffle wrote:Icecube wrote:It's political correctness gone Mod.
HollowHorn wrote:shuffle wrote:Icecube wrote:It's political correctness gone Mod.
Aye, sigh............ ::):
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