However, thestudy suggested understanding of Gaelic words and phrases was limited with just over one in 10 ofthe general public respondents claiming to have at least some knowledge ofthe language.
Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and thewords with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.
In other words, the diminution of memory in the poorer members of their study was entirely explained by stress, rather than by any more general aspect of poverty.