Why doesn Jamie use the endearment “mo duinne” in Voyager?
Er….well….{cough}. He doesn’t say “mo duinne” in Voyager, because between Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager, I acquired the gracious assistance of a native speaker of Gaelic, one Iain MacKinnon Taylor (who kindly advised on all the Gaelic bits in Voyager). Mr. Taylor informed me that while “mo duinne” had the right words for what I meant to convey, it wasn’t idiomatically correct–that is, the proper expression would be”mo nighean donn”. So I used that in Voyager, wishing (as always {grin}) to be as accurate as possible.
