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Last month we gave you the opportunity to cast your vote on our newly launched poll. The topic was 'Should road signs north of Perth on the A9 be bi-lingual?'

Gaelic is a Celtic language spoken by 58,652 people in Scotland according to the last Census (2001). According to figures from the same Census, more people with Gaelic language ability live in the Western Isles (18,420), Highland (18,360) and Argyll and Bute (6,520) than any other local authority area in Scotland, but there are also large concentrations of speakers who live in major…