Island banks and businesses are being told to check they speak the lingo – and know the law.
Dr Brian Stowell says he wrote to an Island-based utility company after it had the cheek to return one of his cheques.
It hadn’t bounced and the company does accept cheques, but he’d written it in Manx.
Dr Stowell takes up the story (audio file attached):
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