sentences:  And despite the nativist opinion of the region's Gaelic, in his visit to the island, Messenger found that essentially all of the islanders older than eight spoke English proficiently, mixed English regularly into their speech, and even confessed to their priests in English.He attributed the rise in English to a practical view of language; many young people emigrate and would be disadvantaged by speaking only Gaelic.Messenger's study of this community has often been cited by anthropologists and sexologists as an example of extreme sexual repression.