Dear Mrs, or Ms, Coakley:

I had the pleasure of reading your response to a query from Mr. Jim Smith, however, I personally found your response to be un-researched, badly written, and containing many misspelled words. Considering your education, to put it mildly, I thought you were writing a pun. I was misled, because before I had read to the end, I knew you were serious.

Let us start with a couple of facts. It is agreed upon by anthropologists and other researchers that there is only one race of people, with a few minor differences from the chimpanzee in our DNA. Celtic people spoke a language that is called Gaelic. The Celts settled and lived in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and a few of the Hebrides, before the coming of the Vikings, who were a tribe of Norse people, or Norwegian, or from the North. From then on the Gaelic was overlain with the language of the Vikings and became a base language. The Isle of Man was also visited by the Romans, and the latest invasion was by the English who treated the native peoples badly, and bought the Island from those who were not the rightful owners.

The Manx people were smart enough to know that if you can't beat them, then join them. This they did, and the foreign English language started to come into use for the same reason. When rules were reduced regarding travel to England and back, those that spoke English were smart enough to go to England and seek better, or more stable work.

People have been coming to work and settle on the Island, since the days of the Picts and the Scots, and earlier, and do so today, including the person named Coakley. It seems as if the aforementioned however, has not perused the valuable two volume work written by A. W. Moore, called, A HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF MAN, which can be purchased for a reasonable sum from the Manx Museum.

To this day, Manx people leave the Island, not because they are ignorant and dispirited, but because they are smart enough to go to places far and wide, seeking new horizons and to further their knowledge while seeing parts of the world not viewable from their native soil. I suggest that you read the history books mentioned, and also the history of Goldie Taubman, and others born on the Island, so that you can become more responsive to the true history of the Isle of Man.

Sincerely,

Mr Arthur D. Armstrong.