Quote Originally Posted by ctbuchanan View Post
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"Scottish Gaelic is written with just 18 letters each of which is named after a tree or shrub.
I have never heard this story, can you tell us more?

I believe the reason it is these 18 letters is for the Latin alaphabet of that time frame that was used by the Irish monks to record the Celtic languages. Before that time it was not a writen language.