Timeline for Different etymologies for spoken and written forms

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Apr 4, 2019 at 14:13	comment	added	David Robinson		Yes, that could be. As with many languages, we have limited evidence of how it was pronounced, or what the peasants spoke in Scotland. It was written in classical Old Irish, but as today in Scotland, where most writing and most high-register speech is English, but many people speak something incomprehensible in England, so Old Irish, as recorded in the texts, may have been a foreign tongue to the average speaker of Scots Gaelic. Perhaps they used the verb "to book" to describe a monk staring a book and getting words from it, and only learn the word leugh when they themselves learnt to read.
Apr 4, 2019 at 3:36	history	answered	user31341	CC BY-SA 4.0