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14 hours ago, tamthebam said:

George Ezra could have a civil partnership with Tom Selleck to give the Parliamo Glasgow phrase upon seeing a team from the East End, Ezra Selleck

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On 20/03/2023 at 22:54, Fuctifano said:

Balloch (near Loch Lomond) and Balloch (near Inverness) having different pronunciations is a good one to confuse people. 

How people pronounce place-names very rarely changes over the centuries so is a handy tool in toponomastics (the study of placenames/landscape features names).

Gaelic place-names emphasise the first syllable of single words or the first syllable of the last word in multi word place-names.

That still holds true even where in later centuries the spelling conventions squeezed multi word names into single words.

That means BalLOCH near Inverness with its second syllable emphasis used to be a multi word name - Bail' an Locha - settlement of the loch. 

Whilst it would be tempting to apply the same meaning to BALLoch Loch Lomond, the first syllable emphasis tells us its a single word, in this likely Bealach - meaning an opening, breach or inlet - in this case the breach in the Loch which opens into the Vale of Leven.

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On 07/04/2023 at 16:54, GordonD said:

If the actress Tuesday Weld married the grandson of actor Frederic March, she'd be Tuesday March the Third

A week now and I am still having a little snigger about this post. Bravo.

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6 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Must have missed that bit in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

There is a connection between famous farter Le Petomane and 2001: A Space Odyssey..

A free greenie to the first reader that posts the connection... 

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13 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

There is a connection between famous farter Le Petomane and 2001: A Space Odyssey..

A free greenie to the first reader that posts the connection... 

If you watch(ed) either you are a flight risk and more importantly, taken out of society.

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