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  • If you go on iplayer, probably a fifth of the programmes are in Gaelic from BBC Alba, obviously because the broadband connection is so fantastic on a couple of tiny rainswept islands in the outer hebrides.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • We blackbirded from the New hebrides and the Line Islands over to the westward, clear through the Louisiades, New Britain, New Ireland, and New Hanover.

    The Heathen 1914

  • We blackbirded from the New hebrides and the Line Islands over to the westward, clear through the Louisiades, New Britain, New Ireland, and New Hanover.

    The Heathen 1910

  • If different hands take up the hobbit, there will be noticiable differences...the BAG END hobbit dwelling is key to both stories, and it will not be the same if the movie is shot in the cotswolds and cornwall, and the hebrides and alps...( although it would be closer to old proffesser T's personal experiances )

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • If different hands take up the hobbit, there will be noticiable differences...the BAG END hobbit dwelling is key to both stories, and it will not be the same if the movie is shot in the cotswolds and cornwall, and the hebrides and alps...( although it would be closer to old proffesser T's personal experiances )

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • If different hands take up the hobbit, there will be noticiable differences...the BAG END hobbit dwelling is key to both stories, and it will not be the same if the movie is shot in the cotswolds and cornwall, and the hebrides and alps...( although it would be closer to old proffesser T's personal experiances )

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Which sat nav covers te western isles/outer hebrides?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

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  • Does this have a singular form? Apparently it may derive from a Latin word that looks like a fem. pl. Hebrid? Hebride? Hebrida?

    January 29, 2008

  • Seems like logically it should be She-brides.

    yukyuk!

    January 29, 2008