[This is based on the final posts to the old lithchat.]

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Hearts annihilated Dunfermline Athletic Saturday morning in the Scottish Premier League, 4–0. Saulius Mikoliūnas scored the third goal, as Hearts retain possession of the (second and) final berth from the SPL in the Champions League.

If we grant that there's something echt Lithuanian about a little gintarinis gyvuliukas brought back as a present from a trip to Lietuva, what does it mean that, when haggling with the bobutes on Pilies, they're likely to break into discussions among themselves in Polish? Vilnius, of course, a cosmopolitan city, has boasted enormous non-Lithuanian populations, especially in comparison with the rest of contemporary Lithuania. If you believe Wikipedia, during the interwar period, not even 5% of Vilnius was made up of "Lithuanians," whatever that means.

 Still, on my first two trips to the city, I found it jarring to be thrown into the seeming capital of Lithuania, where so much was happening in Polish. So it's with great amusement that I read this article from the UK :

But now the man in charge of training staff for jobs in Wales's tourism industry has sparked controversy by claiming that so many foreigners are working in the country's hotels and restaurants that guests are unable to tell whether they are in Cardigan or Copenhagen.